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December 21, 2019December 21, 2019

Risk You Can Eat

The risk and safety industry just continues to get more absurd as it ventures into conceptual metaphor of eating and diet as it seek to make sense of the unquantifiable nature of risk (https://safetyrisk.net/quantifying-the-unquantifiable/). Then the industry goes into complete… Read the rest

November 29, 2019November 29, 2019

People and Safety

When we look at people as people and not as a number, we will start to see them as people that are doing the same, thing we are doing. Supporting a family and making a living. Since we are all… Read the rest

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019

And the Enemy of Safety is? … Humans!

One of the sad aspects of zero language and discourse are its by-products. The only trajectory of zero and its tandem fixations, numeric and metrics, is to demonize humans as the enemy of safety. Such is an industry that has… Read the rest

October 26, 2019November 5, 2019

Why Safety is Inescapably Theological

The moment Safety drifts into questions of life, death, suffering, pain, harm and ‘saving lives’ it has no way to go except a trajectory into theology. We observe this in Dekker’s book ‘The End of Heaven, Disaster and Suffering in… Read the rest

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019

Defining Safety

A comment to a blog recently by Kevin Jones stated: ‘……issues that OHS usually does not engage with, such as staff resourcing, production timelines, lack of appropriate training and knowledge and more. How can the OHS profession affect changes in… Read the rest