What precedes the feeling of safety? Do we trust in the feeling of what happens? Damasio tackles these tough questions in his wonderful book: The Feeling of What Happens. Where, when and in whom do we place our trust? When people talk about ‘psychological safety’, critical qualitative and moral … [Read more...] about In Safety We Trust, Do We?
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Why good leaders make you feel safe
Why good leaders make you feel safe A safe organisation is definitely not one that relies on rules, punishment, reporting, systems, procedures, checklists, injury measurement, hazard control, authority, error elimination and Zero Harm – how dare anybody call that “Culture”. Feeling safe and being … [Read more...] about Why good leaders make you feel safe
Speak Up, Reporting and Trust in Safety
Speak Up, Reporting and Trust in Safety One of the most vital characteristics of any organization focused on safety is trust. Without trust, there can be no reliable communication, review of events, learning or reporting. The recent article put out by IOSH on Investigations … [Read more...] about Speak Up, Reporting and Trust in Safety
You Don’t Fess Up Without Trust
You Don’t Fess Up Without Trust We saw a classic example of how Safety doesn’t work this week in the Australian election campaign (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10753031/Australia-Election-2022-Extraordinary-moment-worker-covers-sign-Scott-Morrison.html ). The Prime Minister of … [Read more...] about You Don’t Fess Up Without Trust
Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk
Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk (280 pages, 200 Illustrations) Dr Long is pleased to announce publication of Book 9 in the series on Risk: Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk You can download the book for sale at $19.95 here: Buy Envisioning Risk, Seeing, … [Read more...] about Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk
Leadership in safety – Trust
Leadership in safety – Trust If people do not trust those leading safety change there will never be wholehearted adoption of the leaders approach. People may agree to the leaders face but do little to advance the leaders ideas, innovative ways to sabotage the leader quite often occur in a … [Read more...] about Leadership in safety – Trust
How To Develop Trust in OHS
Developing trust in OHS By the late George Robotham Having worked in industrially volatile environments I have seen trust breakdown between management and workers. Sometimes it has been for no real reasons and people were working on perceptions. Without trust it is impossible to have an … [Read more...] about How To Develop Trust in OHS
Trust Me When It Comes To Unsafe Behaviours and Process Improvements
A few interesting recent articles by Phil LaDuke on his blog: http://philladuke.wordpress.com/ A message from Phil: I am still struggling to gain readership of my blog that I lost when I abandoned the Rockford Greene International blog (RIP). I hope that if you find this piece valuable you … [Read more...] about Trust Me When It Comes To Unsafe Behaviours and Process Improvements