Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
One of the sad aspects of zero language and discourse are its by-products.
The only trajectory of zero and its tandem fixations, numeric and metrics, is to demonize humans as the enemy of safety. Such is an industry that has no idea what to do … Learn more >>>>>
Criticisms of the work of Robert Long and the Social Psychology of Risk (and “Safety Differently”), by people obviously frustrated with orthodox safety (Safety 1), include that it is: too “fluffy”; too academic; doesn’t come with a step by step … Learn more >>>>>
There are many people working in Safety who seek a ‘different’ way of engaging with others, and rightly so. The current policing and patrolling approaches adopted by many, seem to be doing little … Learn more >>>>>
My perception of ‘Safety Differently’ is that it involves a systematic approach to humanising overly bureaucratic systems – I just cant see how it can be radically different whilst it’s still called ‘safety’ and all that that word conjures up in our … Learn more >>>>>
Great to read a piece on the Safety Differently site that situates systems within a social and societal context (Thinking Differently about incident investigations). One of the strange things about the tradition of safety is its maintenance of … Learn more >>>>>
