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Understanding Humans and How They Tackle Risk

April 10, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Understanding Humans and How They Tackle Risk Without a proper understanding of humans, fallibility and an holistic understanding culture, Safety will never develop a humanising approach to risk. … [Read more...] about Understanding Humans and How They Tackle Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: fallibility, religion, transdisciplinarity

Demonising Error and Mistakes, What Can the Book of Job Tell Safety

April 1, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Demonising Error and Mistakes, What Can the Book of Job Tell Safety The story of Job is a classic challenge for philosophers, philosophical psychologists, theologians and Safety. Some of the best … [Read more...] about Demonising Error and Mistakes, What Can the Book of Job Tell Safety

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: job, transdisciplinarity

Adversarial Collaboration for Learning in Safety

March 2, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Adversarial Collaboration for Learning in Safety This is the title of a recent video published by Daniel Kahneman. It’s not surprising that Daniel Kahneman has found lots of fans in the safety … [Read more...] about Adversarial Collaboration for Learning in Safety

Filed Under: Ethics, Robert Long Tagged With: adversarial collaboration, kahneman, learning, transdisciplinarity

Echo Chambers and Thinking About Risk

November 21, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Echo Chambers and Thinking About Risk One of the greatest challenges for the any industry is introspection, gazing into its own belly button hoping to find something new. We could call this ‘fortress … [Read more...] about Echo Chambers and Thinking About Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Wicked Problems Tagged With: anti-fragility, hypersafety, safetyism, transdisciplinarity

Making Safety Religious

July 26, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Making Safety Religious There was an interesting article in the Conversation today by Chris Hartney arguing that ignorance/naivety about religious awareness tends to make one more religious. One … [Read more...] about Making Safety Religious

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: religion, transdisciplinarity

When Seeing is NOT Believing

July 13, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

When Seeing is NOT Believing If you haven’t seen the documentary American Deepfake then do so. It presents the problem of observation and evidence in an age when seeing is NOT believing. When it … [Read more...] about When Seeing is NOT Believing

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: deepfake, papersafe, transdisciplinarity

Investigations the IOSH Way

July 9, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Investigations the IOSH Way IOSH recently published an article on Investigative Interviewing  written by an ex specialist criminal investigator for two elite UK law enforcement agencies. Then … [Read more...] about Investigations the IOSH Way

Filed Under: critical thinking, Investigation, Robert Long Tagged With: IOSH, transdisciplinarity

Investigations and the Causality Sausage

June 4, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Investigations and the Causality Sausage The topic of bias and worldview is rarely discussed as a foundation for incident investigations indeed, if you read the AIHS BoK Chapter of Ethics … [Read more...] about Investigations and the Causality Sausage

Filed Under: critical thinking, Investigation, Robert Long Tagged With: causality, transdisciplinarity

Zero as a Semiotic

May 29, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

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Zero as a Semiotic When we look at the image (semiotic) of zero there is much that is going on unconsciously. The idea of zero in risk and safety may have originally started as some naïve quest for … [Read more...] about Zero as a Semiotic

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: Heinrich’s pyramid, Swiss Cheese Model, transdisciplinarity

Spin, Nonsense Language and Propaganda in Safety

February 24, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Spin, Nonsense Language and Propaganda in Safety It wasn’t that long ago that the latest trend in safety was to label someone a ‘thought leader’ or a ‘disrupter’ … [Read more...] about Spin, Nonsense Language and Propaganda in Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: ethic of risk, spin, transdisciplinarity

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