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 […]
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Understanding Just Culture
Understanding Just Culture The idea of Just Culture is not a neutral concept. Within the mechanistic worldview of safety and positivism Just Culture often is defined to mean ‘fair systems’ or ‘low-blame’ systems. This is evident in many presentations on Just Culture including the following presentations: · Just Culture as an algorithm for accountability https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/presentation/7f6a/a244170dd72cee38ab877b39e5dd0835cd40.pdf […]
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By What Method?
By What Method? One of the strange beliefs of Safety is that the publication of injury statistics invokes change? Ah, how does it do that? Since when did information become motivation? When one looks at the many promises made in the safety industry and all the propaganda about zero, injury reduction etc. there are three […]
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Vision Can’t Come from Safety Compliance
Vision Can’t Come from Safety Compliance One of the spin offs, trade-offs and by-products of Vision Zero is a lack of vision. The idea of vision comes from more than just seeing something but rather seeing beyond something. I will be writing about this in my next book Envisioning Risk, Signs and Symbols in Risk. […]
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Zero Harm – Just Imagine
Zero Harm – Just Imagine Just imagine a world where no one is harmed at work. Imagine Utopia where no one skins a knee riding a bike, no one cuts their hand with a Stanley knife, no one falls over in the shower and no one gets dust in their eye on a windy day. […]
