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Quantum Systems and Operationalising SPoR

June 24, 2024 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I was asked as a result of the last blog and Newsletter how Quantum Mechanics (https://safetyrisk.net/what-does-quantum-tell-safety/) affects risk and safety and, how to ‘operationalise’ a method accordingly. At the heart of Quantum is uncertainty, paradox and ambiguity … [Read more...] about Quantum Systems and Operationalising SPoR

Filed Under: ICue, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: HOP, quantum systems, safety differently

Can Any Innovation in Safety be Deemed Good?

February 12, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

When the best effort at Ethics is the AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics (https://safetyrisk.net/a-guide-to-tokenism-in-ethics-in-safety/) you don’t have to argue about whether safety is professional. Of course, it isn’t. There can be no claim to professionalism without a mature and well-articulated … [Read more...] about Can Any Innovation in Safety be Deemed Good?

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: innovation, safety differently

The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate How Many Angels Can Dance on a Pinhead? Introduction Let me first acknowledge that I do not find any ranking of safety such as S1 or S2 helpful, so I try to avoid such language and will do my best to avoid it in this paper. Indeed, ranking language in safety is … [Read more...] about The Safety and ‘New View’ Debate

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: archetype, Archetypes, neuroscience, safety archetype, safety differently, safety models, traditional safety

Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety 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 the myth of … [Read more...] about Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: icam, root cause, safety differently, thinking, tradition

Understanding iCue, a Visual, Verbal, Semiotic Method for Tackling Risk

June 28, 2023 by Admin Leave a Comment

If you really want to do safety differently you need a method that is different too. You can’t do safety differently using the same old systems and methods. More so, you can’t do safety differently from the same mechanistic paradigm. This is why I developed the iCue Method for tackling risk and … [Read more...] about Understanding iCue, a Visual, Verbal, Semiotic Method for Tackling Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: iCue, Nippin Anand, safety differently

Do we Need a Different Way of Being in Safety?

February 21, 2023 by Rob Sams Leave a Comment

Do we Need a Different Way of Being in Safety? 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 to support people in how they tackle the challenges of … [Read more...] about Do we Need a Different Way of Being in Safety?

Filed Under: Humble Inquiry, Rob Sams, Safety Differently, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: humble inquiry, safety differently

And the Enemy of Safety is? … Humans!

September 23, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 12 Comments

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 about human fallibility except drift into a psychosis … [Read more...] about And the Enemy of Safety is? … Humans!

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: human factors, safety differently

Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth

April 4, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth The language of ‘performance’ in safety has over time, been decoupled from its real meaning. How humans ‘perform’ has been commandeered by behaviourism and scientism in safety by the meaningless pursuit of measurement. We see this typically in the … [Read more...] about Programming for Safety, the Performance Myth

Filed Under: 1% safer, Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: 1% safer, complacency, fallibility, neuroscience, performance, safety differently, technique

Letting Go of Safety, Differently

October 25, 2018 by Admin 5 Comments

Letting Go of Safety, Differently 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 instruction … [Read more...] about Letting Go of Safety, Differently

Filed Under: Safety Differently Tagged With: safety 1, safety 2, safety differently, safety moments

Safety Differently–The Movie

October 12, 2017 by Admin Leave a Comment

Safety Differently–The Movie 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 minds? Calling in … [Read more...] about Safety Differently–The Movie

Filed Under: Safety Clutter, Safety Differently, Safety systems Tagged With: safety differently

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