My daughter sent me this meme from the Internet but It makes a great point about what we think safety is. So much of what we see in the safety world is about petty injury, slips, trips and falls and the apparent heroics of stopping them. If only we could all be Hazardman saving women from falling … [Read more...] about It Depends How You Think About Safety
Women in Safety
Wo-Men in Safety
When I first saw this (PPE Women in Construction) you could blow me over with a feather. Safety just keeps getting worse and worse. See Figure 1. Figure 1. If ever there was need for a feminist ethic in Safety it would be now. Here we have, masked as something to do with safety and PPE, all that … [Read more...] about Wo-Men in Safety
Speaking Semiotic Language to Safety
Speaking Semiotic Language to Safety Semiotics is a language all of its own, no different than a language like Mandarin or Music, and needing translation. Semiotics embodies a visual language that transcends the logic and mechanics of other languages because it uses representations like visual … [Read more...] about Speaking Semiotic Language to Safety
Work-Life and Risk, Feminine Perspectives
Work-Life and Risk, Feminine Perspectives Recently five women gathered together to talk about the Social Psychology of Risk and the world of work. The day was spent tackling some big questions on the nature of personhood, maturity, wisdom, discernment, discourse, power and risk. During the day … [Read more...] about Work-Life and Risk, Feminine Perspectives
Speaking a New Language in Safety
Speaking a New Language in Safety Dekker wisely recommends that Safety needs a new language (and discourse) for understanding and acting safety (Drift into Failure, pp. 15, 49, 53, 58, 123). He rightly asserts that the language (and grammar) of reductionist (seeking simple binary answers) thinking … [Read more...] about Speaking a New Language in Safety
New Women in Safety Networking Group
New Women in Safety Networking Group Um…..my apologies to The Brotherhood but some of the best Safety People/Leaders/Consultants I have worked with have been women! Not sure if purely co-incidental or they just have superior intellect, empathy, intuition, organisational skills, greater attention to … [Read more...] about New Women in Safety Networking Group