A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations I’ve recently seen and done a few incident investigations which really fell short of any mark except for ticking the box on the form that says … [Read more...] about A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations
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Wrong-Headed Safety
So much about the safety industry is about wrong thinking. The STEM-only worldview has us convinced that good safety is about rationality and cognition. This worldview has us convinced in typical … [Read more...] about Wrong-Headed Safety
What to Say Instead Of Be Careful
What to Say Instead Of Be Careful Not often you find gems on Linkedin (see poster below) and this is juxtaposed lately with posts about 10 Golden Rules and “who’s to blame” videos. Most legislation … [Read more...] about What to Say Instead Of Be Careful
Unthinkable
Unthinkable As we listen to the responses to the Australian Cricket team ball tampering affair we hear that most people think that the team was thinking rationally about cheating. Many attribute the … [Read more...] about Unthinkable
Risk Intelligence, Thinking and Decision Making
Risk Intelligence, Thinking and Decision Making A recent article by Dylan Evans (Risk Intelligence) in October 2016 rightly challenges the construct of Kahneman (Thinking fast and Slow). Evans … [Read more...] about Risk Intelligence, Thinking and Decision Making
Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety
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 … [Read more...] about Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety
Just Tell Your Mind to Stop It
Just Tell Your Mind to Stop It I saw a classic this week that was posted on Linkedin from a safety ‘thought leader’. It was a model that proposed how one could ‘control’ the unconscious by … [Read more...] about Just Tell Your Mind to Stop It
Think
James Parkinson asked me to post this for him. James is a good, very down to earth bloke on a journey to unlearn traditional safety. He has only just started but, reading back on some of his original … [Read more...] about Think
