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How to Tackle Risk You Can’t See

May 6, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

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

April 16, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

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

Filed Under: Ethics, Psychological Safety, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK, emotion, transdisciplinary approach

So, You Want Culture Change?

November 12, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Tagged With: checklists, transdisciplinary approach

A Semiotic Understanding of Culture

October 10, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Semiotics Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Culture, transdisciplinary approach

What is Critical Thinking in Safety?

September 11, 2021 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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?

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK on Ethics, critical thinking, transdisciplinary approach

The Spirit of Zero

April 15, 2021 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

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

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: cult, transdisciplinary approach

Causation Concoctions

May 27, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

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

Filed Under: Human Error, Robert Long, Wicked Problems Tagged With: AIHS BoK, bowtie, causation, Energy Causation Model, hazards, transdisciplinary approach

The Heart of Wisdom at Covid Time

April 24, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 7 Comments

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

Filed Under: Covid-19, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: caring, coronavirus, transdisciplinary approach, wisdom

The Value of Transdisciplinary Inquiry in a Crisis

April 14, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

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

Filed Under: crisis, Robert Long Tagged With: transdisciplinary approach

Bridging the Disciplines for Better Outcomes

January 13, 2020 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

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

Filed Under: CLLR, Robert Long, Semiotics, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: Bok, transdisciplinary approach, wicked problems

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