The weird thing about zero=safety (https://safetyrisk.net/safetyzero-culture/ ) is the denial of mortality and fallibility in all of its discourse and language. Even when you go to the Global Safety Congress, they call it a ‘zero event’ (https://safetyrisk.net/the-global-zero-event-this-is-safety/). … [Read more...] about Counting the Cost of Mortality and Fallibility
Zero Harm
How Do You Know Zero Doesn’t Work
I had to have a laugh when I read this pseudo-research on zero (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022437524001178 ). One thing is most certain. If you want critical research that considers ethical and moral meaning, don’t ask Safety. The paper starts out assuming there is … [Read more...] about How Do You Know Zero Doesn’t Work
Making Things Safe is Not Necessarily a Virtue
One can declare something a ‘virtue’, ‘principle’ or ‘professional’, but it doesn’t make it so. Safety is NOT at the top of some hierarchy of concocted values made up by Safety. Safety has no right to over-ride the rights of others or their culture just because it loves to claim such power. Yet, … [Read more...] about Making Things Safe is Not Necessarily a Virtue
Silences in Safety
With the subtlety sledgehammer, Dr Rob Long knocks the unattainable, meaningless ideas and slogans like “Zero Harm” and “Safety First” right on the noggin! Read more of his articles here “Cultures that strategically know their silences are more sophisticated than cultures that fill the airwaves … [Read more...] about Silences in Safety
Tier One Miners, Psychosocial Risk and Zero
We learn yet again through the work of Rio Tinto and BHP that the language of zero is toxic for psychosocial safety (https://michaelwest.com.au/mining-giants-sued-over-alleged-sexual-harassment/). And if there’s one kind of language and discourse tier one’s love so much, it’s zero. Zero … [Read more...] about Tier One Miners, Psychosocial Risk and Zero
Petty Safety is Not Professional
We have seen recently the absurdity of hyper-safety, suggesting all outdoor activities be banned and that Santa wear a seatbelt (https://safetyrisk.net/the-horrors-of-hyper-safety/ ). All suggested by so-called ‘safety professionals’. Of course, this kind of preoccupation with petty low-risk … [Read more...] about Petty Safety is Not Professional
How the Ideology of Zero Destroys Learning in Risk
I read recently about what Zero is doing to recreational enjoyment in New Zealand. This is the lunacy of the absolute of Zero. This is the nonsense you get from the delusion of absolute-safety (Amalberti) and the quest for zero (Taleb). The quest for absolute safety simply makes the populace more … [Read more...] about How the Ideology of Zero Destroys Learning in Risk
My Target Goal is Zero Death
My Target Goal is Zero Death Currently luvin’ the work of Dr Robert Long and have read his book “Risk Makes Sense” over and over. Just came across a recent post on his blog which puts the absurdity of ZERO HARM goals in perspective we can all understand. While ever we are breathing we can than … [Read more...] about My Target Goal is Zero Death
Unconscious Messaging and Zero Trust
It is strange how people think messaging works. Imagine trying to tell people to trust in your strategy that is about ‘zero trust’. I saw this advertised yesterday and wondered who thought this up? The logic of this marketing is to trust in zero trust. Such marketing makes language … [Read more...] about Unconscious Messaging and Zero Trust
The Folly of Zero
There’s nothing like contradiction and hypocrisy to demolish credibility. Talk is cheap and spin is easy. This is the way of zero ideology (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/zero-the-great-safety-delusion/). Folly is the foolishness of a façade compared to the substance of reality. Any … [Read more...] about The Folly of Zero