The Human Safety Newsletter is Out

Originally posted on August 9, 2014 @ 8:06 AM

Human Dymensions Newsletter 2014 Quarterly Newsletter

If you are over boring safety newsletters about legislation updates, recent fines and the latest PPE flooding your inbox then here is a Safety Newsletter worth reading. You can subscribe here: http://www.humandymensions.com/mailing-list

The highly successful Post Graduate Program in the Psychology of Risk is finishing the first year with a third of students electing to graduate in 2014 with a Graduate Certificate in the Psychology of Risk. Two thirds of the students are continuing into the Post Graduate Diploma Program in 2015.

Places for enrolment are now open for 2015 with half of those places already taken by new students. Unit 1 of the Graduate Certificate Program in the Psychology of Risk commences in March 2015.
If you would like to enrol or if you require more information about the Program you can email the University Convenor: Brad.Markham@acu.edu.au or rob@humandymensions.com. An overview, testimonials and reports on the Program can be viewed here:
https://safetyrisk.net/post-graduate-studies-in-the-social-psychology-of-risk/
https://safetyrisk.net/second-student-group-social-psychology-of-risk/

If you are in Melbourne you can even come and meet the second student group on Unit 4 of the Program at ACU 6-9 October.

Puzzles of the Mind

One of the fascinating things about the human mind is that we know so little about it. It has only been in the last 10 years of so with advances in fRMI imaging and neuroscience that we have come to understand more of the mind, much more than the mechanics of the brain. One of the leaders in research into the mind is Susan Greenfield. Her books are most accessible and easy to read. One of my favourite authors on the mind is John Medina, his book Brain Rules is a must for people interested in risk. Medina illustrates in his book the triarchic nature of the human brain as illustrated above.

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One Brain Three Minds Program

Human Dymensions has developed the One Brain Three Minds presentation to explain how the mind works, particularly with regard to decision making about risk. As much as some researchers use binary understandings of the human mind (fast and slow), there are many religious traditions that understand the human mind in triarchic ways eg. brain, heart and gut. In reality we have many speeds in mindfulness and this is repesented in the One Brain Three Minds Tool used in training above. Human Dymensions base the One Brain Three Minds concept on the work of the triarchic tradition and a range of experts (Norrtranders, Medina, Ramachandran etc) in human consciousness (and the unconsciousness).ur description

      <p>The One Brain Three Minds Workshop explains why so much of paper-based approaches to managing risk are not successful and why organisations should improve their approaches to engaging people in mind 2 and 3 and better understand the foundations of human decision making.           <br />If you would like to have the half day or full day presentation of One Brain Three Minds in your organisation please contact: <a href="mailto:admin@humandymensions.com">admin@humandymensions.com</a></p>                  <tr>       <td width="748">&nbsp;</td>     </tr>   

Improving Inductions One of the services of Human Dymensions is enhancing, designing and improving company inductions. Rob and Craig are more than happy to speak to you about your induction and support your organisation in designing a great induction. Read here for a guide on what makes a good and poor induction.

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The Amazing Work of Mexican Octavio Ocampo

The work of Mexican Octavio Ocampo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Ocampo) serves to highlight the fluid nature of human perception. For example, one can look at Ocampo’s work ‘The Shiva Woman’ below (and many more of Ocampo’s images by a search in Google Images) and perceive more and more in time, seeing things that were initially not visible. This is because we initially rely on our rational mind (Mind 1) to analyse images and yet can’t control our perceptions. Then as we become familiar with the initial image our Mind 3 perception flips in and out and across images uncontrollably.

More of Octavio Ocampo

Search for Octavio Ocampo in Google images and you will be delighted by his work. for more (Scientific American Mind May/June p. 21ff)

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      <p>The new book is called <em>Following-Leading in Risk</em> and explores the nature of how people work together in organisations to tackle risk. A special newsletter will come out closer to the date to inform everyone of the launch, expected in late November. The launch will be at ACU North Sydney. The work on the Field Guide has been delayed for release in 2015.</p>                  <tr>       <td width="748">&nbsp;</td>     </tr>   

Competition – Find the Cat

Well time to find a cat again. Apologies for the last one that was so hard to find but it was there. This time I have given you a much easier one. First 5 correct answers get a signed copy of book 3 Real Risk, Human Discerning and Risk.

      <p>We also know that multiple other factors have been found to be associated with perceived risk, including demographic characteristics such as race and sex (Slovic, 1999), affect (Johnson &amp; Tversky, 1983; Lerner, Gonzalez, Small, &amp; Fischhoff, 2003; Slovic, 1987), perceptions of others’ beliefs regarding a hazard (Starr, 1969), and proximity, both geographic and temporal, to a catastrophic event (Fischhoff, Gonzalez, Small, &amp; Lerner, 2003).</p>          <p>Recent research by Blum, Silver and Poulin (<em>Social Cognition</em>, Vol. 32, No. 3, 2014, pp. 297–314) shows that perceived risk increases in correlation to increased negative and violent life experience. In other words, one’s own life experiences amplify one’s perception of risk, usually over estimating associated risk and underestimating disassociated risks. This is also supported by the excellent work of Pidgeon, Kasperson and Slovic (2003) The Social Amplification of Risk. The Social Amplification of Risk is Unit 7 in the Post Graduate Diploma Program. The Social Psychology of Risk understands that risk assessment is not objective but is rather attributed due to social arrangements.</p>                  <tr>       <td width="748">&nbsp;</td>     </tr>   

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