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Behind every method is a methodology, a philosophy that drives the method. One of the grand delusions of Safety is that methods are neutral and objective, they are not.| SafetyRisk.net
Behind every method is a methodology, a philosophy that drives the method. One of the grand delusions of Safety is that methods are neutral and objective, they are not.| SafetyRisk.net
Originally posted on November 10, 2014 @ 8:19 PM Nonsense Curves and Pyramids Safety likes nothing more than curves and pyramids, nothing so exciting as parading out the Bradley Curve or Heinrich’s Pyramid to get the troops excited about failure and loss. The Bradley Curve was created by DuPont in 1995 to try and benchmark […]| SafetyRisk.net
Originally posted on November 12, 2014 @ 8:59 PM Culture and Subculture, Which is Safety? The SIA BoK chapter on Organisational Culture came out this week. I read with interest that there was no intentional discussion of subcultures in the paper. Of course with so much sunk cost the club will surround the wagons and […]| SafetyRisk.net
Originally posted on September 20, 2014 @ 8:41 AM Stress is a part of living, the pressure of being a fallible being in a complex world is stressful, but is stress bad? In what ways are humans stressed and how does this affect the discerning of risk and safety? There are four kinds of stress […]| SafetyRisk.net
The idea of atonement is a deeply theological idea and is linked to the practice of forgiveness. There are many theologies of atonement in a number of religions. There is not one view. Similarly, with theories of forgiveness and learning. Yet, we see recently, Dekker drifting into the theological sphere as if there is one […]| SafetyRisk.net
I was chatting with a young person the other day and they brought a drink with them. I normally don’t read the text on cans of drink but was struck by what I read on this can. You can see the can in Figure 1. Breath of God Figure 1. Breath of God Wow, so […]| SafetyRisk.net
It’s so easy to fall victim to a scam. We generally want to believe the best in people or find ourselves in a situation where things make sense but mask a hidden reality. I fell victim to the Netflix scam myself, quite easily. When scammers know enough about you, human psychology and common scenarios, its […]| SafetyRisk.net
We know that silly slogans mislead people and create single statements that are not true. Such linguistics limit the way we think about risk and promote simplistic thinking when the truth is, risk is a wicked problem. (Our next module on Linguistics and Risk starts tomorrow). The trouble is, by-products created by slogans mislead and […]| SafetyRisk.net
The HOP club seem to think that reality can be reshaped by a collection of slogans and memes. One of the classics is the slogan ‘blame fixes nothing’. Of course, the reality is that blame fixes things, this is the foundation of the justice system. The court decides where the blame lies and what needs […]| SafetyRisk.net
One of the by-products of the positive psychology cult is: the massaging of truth, the creation of false narratives, linguistic spin and ethical gymnastics. Whilst there is nothing wrong with positive psychology in itself its evolution as a reaction against perceived negative analysis such as: critical theory, post-Marxist theory and deconstructionism, bring with it some delusional […]| SafetyRisk.net
Safety is a mono-disciplinary endeavour, anchored to the philosophies of Rationalism, Positivism and Behaviourism. If you seek out knowledge from this industry, that’s the methodology that generates all that follows. The method that follows has been the same in safety since 1931. These dominant philosophies result in the weird outcome of engineers and behaviourists sprouting […]| SafetyRisk.net
