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The Silver Bullet

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The Safety Silver Bullet I found it! You can buy your official silver bullet HERE >>>> The idea of finding a silver bullet is that there is a perfect solution to a problem. It’s a simple idea that comes from binary absolute thinking. Such thinking is very common in safety and proposes … [Read more...] about The Silver Bullet

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Semiotics, Simplistic Safety, Wicked Problems Tagged With: AIHS, safety silver bullet, silver bullet

Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm

June 28, 2023 by Max Geyer 24 Comments

Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm. Download a copy of the paper (includes the Bibliography for the references):  Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm The prevention of harm is about trying to see, predict and control all things that may deliver an undesired outcome. … [Read more...] about Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm

Filed Under: Max Geyer, Resilience, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems Tagged With: harm, resilience, satisficing, Zero Harm

Investigations and The Simplicity Attraction

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Investigations and The Simplicity Attraction In the face of so much noise, competing values, diversity and confusion stands the myth of Occam’s Razor, a wish that when faced with multiple factors, humans will always opt for the shortest simplest route. The 14th Century philosopher/theologian … [Read more...] about Investigations and The Simplicity Attraction

Filed Under: Investigation, Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Wicked Problems Tagged With: anti-fragile, icam, occams razor, SEEK, simple safety

Does Safety Have A Soul?

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Does Safety Have A Soul? In Chapter 1 of my latest book Envisioning Risk, Seeing, Vision and Meaning in Risk , I discuss the linguistics of ‘soul’ in art, music and movies. In the top 500 songs of all time  we find endless reference to spirit, transcendence, Afterlife, soul and the … [Read more...] about Does Safety Have A Soul?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Poems, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems, Zero Harm Tagged With: soul, STEM

How does collective mindfulness apply to workers compensation?

June 28, 2023 by James Ellis 10 Comments

How does collective mindfulness apply to workers compensation? How do our expectations get us into trouble? Oh, and what is the meaning of life? I’m not so sure which I enjoy most anymore, being right or being wrong? My family, who are accustomed to my insatiable appetite for being right are (I … [Read more...] about How does collective mindfulness apply to workers compensation?

Filed Under: Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems, Workers Compensation Tagged With: collective mindfulness, Workers Compensation

Is The Safety and Risk Revolution Coming?

June 28, 2023 by Admin 15 Comments

Is The Safety and Risk Revolution Coming? This afternoon I had some great, as always, conversation with my good mates Rob Sams and Max Geyer. We spoke at length at how inspired they have been lately working with companies who want to embrace real safety and risk through the understanding the … [Read more...] about Is The Safety and Risk Revolution Coming?

Filed Under: Safety Culture, Simplistic Safety, Wicked Problems, Zero Harm Tagged With: revolution, safety and risk, tradtional safety

Dolphyn’s First Newsletter for 2015

June 28, 2023 by Admin 2 Comments

Late last year I Unsubscribed to dozens of “safety” newsletters (See Isn’t Safety Supposed to be a Positive Thing). Every time I opened these newsletters I was confronted by fines & punishments, legislative updates, death & injury, PPE and the latest snake oil – That’s not safety - I was … [Read more...] about Dolphyn’s First Newsletter for 2015

Filed Under: Communication and Consultation, Rob Sams, Wicked Problems Tagged With: culture, Dolphyn, leadership, learning, Newsletter

How Do You Know If You Are Leading in Risk and Safety?

June 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 18 Comments

How Do You Know If You Are Leading in Risk and Safety? The current marketing at ANU has caught on to the trend in describing one’s self as a ‘thought leader’ (See Youtube Video). You can join a thought leaders group, buy a thought leaders app and even ‘engineer’ a thought leader. Some have caught … [Read more...] about How Do You Know If You Are Leading in Risk and Safety?

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture, Safety Leadership, Semiotics, Simplistic Safety, Wicked Problems Tagged With: culture, risk, Safety, thought leader

The Conundrum in Discerning Risk

June 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

Dr Rob Long, Author of Real Risk – Human Discerning and Risk (download Ch1 Here), explains why we switch to autopilot when under normal work pressures, despite the safety world trying to impose rational thinking processes during inductions, tool box talks or via SWMS. The Conundrum in Discerning … [Read more...] about The Conundrum in Discerning Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems Tagged With: autopilot, discerning risk, heuristics, risk taking

Paperwork and Usability in Tackling Risk

June 27, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Most workers don’t ‘use’ paperwork, they just sign it just as many workers don’t read paperwork they just give it the ‘tick and flick’. The idea of excessive paperwork in safety is much more a middle management problem than a worker problem. The real decisions on the job where the greatest risk is … [Read more...] about Paperwork and Usability in Tackling Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Clutter, Safety systems, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems Tagged With: AIHS BoK, Document Usability, paperwork, transdisciplinarity

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