Zero Harm – Just Imagine Just imagine a world where no one is harmed at work. Imagine Utopia where no one skins a knee riding a bike, no one cuts their hand with a Stanley knife, no one falls over in the shower and no one gets dust in their eye on a windy day. […]
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Until Nothing Changes in Safety
Until Nothing Changes in Safety The industry of safety becomes more and more fixed in its current trajectory through its linguistic practices, semiotic meanings and social reproduction. What does this mean? Humans are the sum of their social relationships and the language that is used to communicate identity. Safety articulates itself through a discourse of […]
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Zero Discourse and Perfectionism
Zero Discourse and Perfectionism Talking perfection to fallible people is not just silly, it is also dangerous (http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180219-toxic-perfectionism-is-on-the-rise). How strange that an industry so fixated on saving lives would unknowingly want to harm people! Yet, this is what the industry of safety does. The publishing of injury league tables is also not only silly, but […]
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Sanctimonious Safety
Sanctimonious Safety ‘Sorry I’m late’ was the excuse from John, ‘ I was held up wiping the arses of morons’. Such was the response from a safety manager this week. I had been waiting for over an hour for him to show up. Then when he finally showed up, I was stunned by what I […]
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ADVENTURES IN RISK AND SAFETY–KING ZERO
Adventures in Risk and Safety, King Zero and a more complete outlook on what it is to be human Guest post by one of the USA based students in The Centre for Leadership and Learning in Risk (CLLR) online program https://cllr.com.au/online-courses-overseas-students/ Does everyone around me really believe this? Am I the only one who questions […]
