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Critical Sources of Harm Ignored by Safety=Zero

November 22, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

We heard today from Minister Rowland (Communications) about the extent and severity of online harm. We are also nearing the ‘zero event’ congress that promises progressive, diverse and extensive coverage of issues critical to safety. This is where the promise is to ‘Grab your popcorn and be ready … [Read more...] about Critical Sources of Harm Ignored by Safety=Zero

Filed Under: 1% safer, Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: esafety

Zero and a Culture of Denial

November 22, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

If you watch the Zero Event promo (https://safety2023sydney.com/) you would be confused to think that safety is some kind of progressive, critical thinking outfit that tackles Transdisciplinarity. It doesn’t. You would also be confused to think that safety looks outside of its own echo chamber to … [Read more...] about Zero and a Culture of Denial

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: Transdiscplinarity

Shaping Change to Zero

November 19, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Vision Zero

One of the fascinating things about zero messaging is the normalisation of absurd contradictions in language. For example: the Safety and Health at Work ‘zero event’ congress website to be held soon in Sydney, states the mantra: ‘Shaping Change’ (https://safety2023sydney.com/ ). The last thing … [Read more...] about Shaping Change to Zero

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: fallibility

Hey CEO? Does Zero Apply to You?

November 3, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the fascinating characteristics of the zero cult is that it always comes ‘from above’, never below. Those at the coalface of risk, those from below know it is bullS*#t. Our Zero Survey (https://safetyrisk.net/take-the-zero-survey/) with over 4000 respondents demonstrates this … [Read more...] about Hey CEO? Does Zero Apply to You?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: sydney 2023

Safety as Zero, The Perfect Event

September 25, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

  Zero is an ideology of perfectionism. I wonder what happens at a ‘zero event’ (https://safetyrisk.net/the-global-zero-event-this-is-safety/) if you make a mistake? We know from all the research that perfectionism is a mental health disorder … [Read more...] about Safety as Zero, The Perfect Event

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: duPont

Validating, Endorsing and Supporting Zero

September 25, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

It is so amusing watching organisations have a bet each way on zero. This is how one plays the religious ‘agnostic’ card to argue that zero is some kind of ‘global by-line’. This is the kind of religious language one uses to claim that zero is not religious. Such a strategy enables fraudulence to … [Read more...] about Validating, Endorsing and Supporting Zero

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: zero sum

The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety

September 24, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

This is how Safety describes what it does. Here it is on full show. Come to Safety so you can have zero vision about risk. Do you want to count how many zero events safety has held recently. I guess a zero event means you had neither an event nor nothing to count? And anyone and … [Read more...] about The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: world congress

If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health

September 23, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

  As long as Safety is founded in the nonsense of injury rate counting and zero, it will never ever be able to tackle the challenges of psychosocial health. The fundamental problem for Safety is, it doesn’t know what to do with fallibility, mortality, vulnerability, corporeal being and … [Read more...] about If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health

Filed Under: Psychosocial Safety, Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: fallibility

Don’t Be Dumb Like Me, the Typical Safety Keynote

August 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

One of the things Safety is so good at is wrong messaging that doesn’t work. This is because safety has no interest in Semiotics, Semiosis or Semantics. https://safetyrisk.net/congruence-in-messaging-in-safety/ https://safetyrisk.net/all-that-you-dont-see-in-messaging/ … [Read more...] about Don’t Be Dumb Like Me, the Typical Safety Keynote

Filed Under: Robert Long, Vision Zero Tagged With: 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work

Auditing the 7 Golden Rules of Zero, A Miserable Fail

August 24, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

One of the positive skills of learning SPoR is understanding the core elements of diagnostics, auditing culture and deconstructing meaning (semiosis) in organising. We do this with the unique MiProfile survey but also with other models of auditing. One such diagnostic is the ‘iCue Language … [Read more...] about Auditing the 7 Golden Rules of Zero, A Miserable Fail

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Vision Zero, Zero Harm Tagged With: golden rules, language audit

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