How to Tackle Risk You Can’t See So often in strategic planning and goal setting people can’t see the trade-offs and by-products they are putting in place. You can’t see what you don’t know. We saw … [Read more...] about How to Tackle Risk You Can’t See
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Being Emotional and Being Safe
Being Emotional and Being Safe Studying the nature of human emotions is neither simple, binary or black and white. It doesn’t matter whether one is talking about learning … [Read more...] about Being Emotional and Being Safe
So, You Want Culture Change?
So, You Want Culture Change? When one’s definition of culture is either systems, behaviours or values (or all three) the strategies (methods) that result reflect the definition. Changing values, … [Read more...] about So, You Want Culture Change?
A Semiotic Understanding of Culture
A Semiotic Understanding of Culture One of the profound weaknesses of the AIHS BoK Chapter on Culture is a complete omission of an Transdisciplinary focus on culture. The approach to understanding … [Read more...] about A Semiotic Understanding of Culture
What is Critical Thinking in Safety?
What is Critical Thinking in Safety? Everyone thinks but not all think critically…. There are countless books out there on supposed ‘critical thinking skills’ but many are not about critical … [Read more...] about What is Critical Thinking in Safety?
The Spirit of Zero
The Spirit of Zero It is always a fascination to watch engineering and safety science immerse itself deeply into the life of sacred practice and salvation theology. Of course neither discipline has … [Read more...] about The Spirit of Zero
Causation Concoctions
The AIHS Bok on Causation commences with the following: ‘If safety management is effective, then there should be an absence of accidents. Conversely, if accidents are occurring then effective safety … [Read more...] about Causation Concoctions
The Heart of Wisdom at Covid Time
I have had numerous people contact me in the last few weeks about issues of resilience, pastoral care, helping, mental health and wisdom for the workforce and more broadly for families and community. … [Read more...] about The Heart of Wisdom at Covid Time
The Value of Transdisciplinary Inquiry in a Crisis
Australian Story on 13 April 2020 entitled Fighting Fire With Fire (https://www.abc.net.au/austory/fighting-fire-with-fire/12134242) raised the idea that Indigenous Traditional knowledge about fire … [Read more...] about The Value of Transdisciplinary Inquiry in a Crisis
Bridging the Disciplines for Better Outcomes
One of the challenges of a closed knowledge culture is that such will not help us meet the needs of the future. Whether one understands intractable complexity as a ‘wicked problem’ or just complexity … [Read more...] about Bridging the Disciplines for Better Outcomes