Right and Wrong in Safety Safety is fundamentally a moral and ethical activity. Any desire for a ‘good’ or a virtue, necessitates an ethic. Unfortunately, even in how Safety shapes its own identity it doesn’t know nor consciously articulate an ethic. Even the brand of ‘professional’ demands an ethic. (It ought be remembered too that […]
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Canada Workshops – Social Psychology of Risk – November 2018
Canada Workshops – Social Psychology of Risk – November 2018 Here is your chance for a two day workshop with Dr Rob Long in Canada in November 2018. Vancouver 1,2 November 2018 The first two day workshop is being hosted by Jeff Lyth (QSP Leadership) and Dr Long (Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk) […]
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Free Social Psychology of Risk Convention
Free Social Psychology of Risk Convention For people who have previously attended an SPoR course. Human Dymensions have decided to sponsor a convention for all people who have studied the Social Psychology of Risk. The purpose of the get together is primarily social, for support, networking and updating. The flyer attached explains it all, […]
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Envisioning Risk in Canada
Envisioning Risk in Canada As I landed in Vancouver enjoying the snow-capped Rockies and myriad of islands, I wondered about meeting the ‘safety heretic’. After landing with a smashed bag and seeking a replacement I meet Jeff Lyth and we chatted about falling out with ‘the faith’ and about worldviews. This was my first meeting […]
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International Workshops – Belgium
International Workshops – Belgium This is to advise of some special opportunities for people in Belgium to experience training and presentations in the Social Psychology of Risk. See details below: Belgium 2 & 3 July 2018 Dr Long will be presenting workshops in Leuven, Belgium on 2,3 July 2018. The focus of the workshop will […]
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Transdisciplinary Safety
Transdisciplinary Safety In the latest issue of The Risk Magazine in the Future of Risk Edition (No. 3 March 2018, p.44) I argued that the future of risk must embrace transdisciplinarity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdisciplinarity ). It is interesting that the binary view that currently dominates safety even interprets this transdisciplinary call as an ‘either-or’ view. A transdisciplinary […]
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Like a Collective Brain Snap
Like a Collective Brain Snap See the followup: How Groupthink Works This is a blog that will only mean something to those who follow cricket. In Australia Cricket is not just a game, it is a semiotic that has significance well beyond the game. Australians find legends in the game of Cricket that go well […]
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ADVENTURES IN RISK AND SAFETY–KING ZERO
Adventures in Risk and Safety, King Zero and a more complete outlook on what it is to be human Guest post by one of the USA based students in The Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR) online program https://cllr.com.au/online-courses-overseas-students/ Does everyone around me really believe this? Am I the only one who questions […]
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Study Social Psychology of Risk Online in 2018
Study SPoR Online in 2018 The Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR) have launched Online studies for non-Australian students for 2018 https://cllr.com.au/online-courses-overseas-students/ Each student is appointed a Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) expert mentor and some great Skype sessions have already eventuated with keen discussions and learning. If you enrol, you will never […]
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A Better Language for Risk and Safety
A Better Language for Risk and Safety Dekker (Safety Differently, 2015, p. vi-xi) calls for a new language in risk and safety and he is so right. We know that language is the bedrock of all culture and that the way we speak shapes the way we organize. Weick (The Social Psychology of Organising, 1979, […]
