Toilet Roll Safety My eldest daughter has just graduated and has her first teaching work. So, we talk a lot about teaching, learning, curriculum, hidden curriculum, scaffolding, conversion, child development, psychology of learning, ethics, the politics of schooling and curriculum ideas. Last week we were sharing ideas about art and craft and I mentioned […]
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Safety in The Land of Norom from the Book of Nil
Safety in The Land of Norom from the Book of Nil Chapter One 1:1 And it came to pass in the land of Norom that Adam was convinced that others were evil. These others were the Malamutes, those neighbour aliens who did not believe in Zero, the brother of Safety and Compliance. 1:2 The Malamutes […]
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No Ethic of Hope in Zero
No Ethic of Hope in Zero The denial of fallibility in the language of zero offers no hope for fallible human beings. Hope is much more than a concept of wishing, naïve optimism nor some unrealistic sense of desire. Hope is always about the unknown future and therefore should be understood as messianically, prophetically, transcendently […]
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Organisational culture
Organisational culture See the mice in their million hordes from Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads David Bowie 1 Safety culture like many soft system change management elements is somewhat vague and subject to definitional dilemma. It is often envisaged as a predictable and concrete entity that is easily managed and measured in isolation using psychometric […]
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The Curse of Dataism
The Curse of Dataism Beard writes: ‘The scions of Silicon Valley have introduced our world to a new religion of ‘Dataism’. In its extreme form proponents of the Dataist worldview perceive the entire universe as a flow of data, see organisms as little more than biochemical algorithms, and believe that humanities cosmic vocation is to […]
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A Professional Ethic of Risk
A Professional Ethic of Risk My daughter who is completing a degree in Paramedics has spent all of the last semester tackling the challenges of ethics in medical practice. One of her assignments was based on a case study where: welfare of the patient, institutional interests, self-interest, community, a code of ethics and moral agency […]
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No Alcohol for the True Believers
No Alcohol for the True Believers We know that zero vision and zero harm are all about belief, this was displayed proudly at the World Congress on Safety (https://safetyrisk.net/zero-vision-as-propaganda/ ). Zero Vision and Zero Harm are ideologies based on absolutes for fallible people. Well here is one for the cult of zero harm. Let’s see […]
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Safety Myopia
Safety Myopia Sometimes you scratch your head and wonder how people can have such a profound lack of perspective. Then again, when one immerses oneself in the cult of zero any perspective outside of numerics disappears. Cultic thinking cannot look outside of itself, it holds to a myopic worldview that loses touch with the real […]
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Petty, Pissy Zero Harm
Petty, Pissy Zero Harm Just when you thought Zero couldn’t get any more unprofessional and stupid, out come some classics this week. Here is an ad for the Head of Zero Harm. I wonder what the KPIs for that job are? Do you get sacked for the first harm? Do you get sacked for the […]
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The Zero Hypocrisy
The Zero Hypocrisy Surprise surprise, we find out that CEOs in many tier 1 organisations are on obscene salaries: The Gaurdian – CEOs don’t understand how angry workers feel about executive pay These are the same organisations that preach zero to workers but seek forgiveness and understanding when they are found to be corrupt https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2018/mar/22/banking-inquiry-has-already-exposed-shocking-corruption-but-it-needs-more-time? Of course […]
