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Originally posted on April 11, 2015 @ 11:02 AM‘Pause and Ponder’ – what we can learn from social psychology academics I’ve had the privilege over the past few days to attend the Society of Australasian Social Psychologist (SASP) Annual Conference held in my hometown of Newcastle, NSW. The SASP Conference brought together more than 170 […]| SafetyRisk.net
Evidence shows that we can be influenced profoundly by the smallest of things and all of this happens unconsciously (Colourful price tags at Australian chemists may trick shoppers into buying full-price items) People in marketing and advertising know this yet, not Safety. The images, graphics and signs we make connect most powerfully to the human […]| SafetyRisk.net
We were introduced to the nature of ‘paradigm shift’ by Thomas Kuhn in the 1960s. One thing you can know for sure is that neither Kuhn, Feyerabend or Laktos will be found on any reading list in safety. Even when Safety uses the word ‘science’ it is not about a paradigm shift but rather more […]| SafetyRisk.net
Originally posted on March 8, 2015 @ 10:11 PMThere is no way I would do that! The impact of social arrangements on our decisions and judgments I had the privilege last week of meeting a new group of people as they commenced their adventure into the world of better understanding people and how we make […]| 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 February 12, 2015 @ 1:01 PM What Happens when Safety is a ‘Battle’? I appreciate the feedback, thoughts and ideas that people share about my Blogs, it helps me learn. One of the articles that sparked much attention over the past 12 months asked Are you a Safety Crusader or a Safety […]| 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
The beginning of understanding ethico-political accountability, responsibility and useability is understanding the nature of power. So often, those who are not sensitised to the nature of power only discover what it means when it affects them. The key to the perception of harm is an ethico-political sensibility to the nature of power. How amusing that […]| 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
Originally posted on September 12, 2014 @ 12:19 PMSome Basics on Social Psychology & Risk I’ve been on a cracker of a journey for about two years now since I discovered social psychology and all that it brings to the area of risk and safety. I’ve discovered how much I don’t know, how much I […]| 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
iCue is one of the foundational methods of SPoR. iCue emerges out of the Existentialist Dialectic methodology of SPoR that is clearly articulated in many of the free books offered by SPoR. iCue is a visual verbal method for mapping: risk, relationships, social meaning, social causality, interconnectedness between physical, inter-person dialectic, psychological and cultural elements […]| 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
One day Safety may discover that language, metaphor and semiotics are critical for communication and messaging. The latest nonsense from Safety confirms that it has no idea what safety is about. We’ve seen this before from other traditional safety sources such as so called ‘safety differently’ that ran the discourse of the ‘lean green safety […]| SafetyRisk.net
Knowledge and Curriculum for Risk and Safety People Every time I am engaged by an organisation I conduct a survey (gap analysis and MiProfile), asking executives, safety people and managers to nominate the knowledge and skills they would like to develop. I have conducted this survey with more than 30,000 people over 10 years and the results demonstrate what the industry wants in knowledge, curriculum and skill development. Included in the list of survey statements are opportunities to learnin...| SafetyRisk.net
“LEADERSHIP is TIME and a simple CUP OF COFFEE” Brian Darlington, Mondi I took a leap of faith 3 years ago and stepped away from my consulting business to immerse myself into being an employee. I wanted to be part of the machinations, to connect, to engage and grow with the people all working towards […]| SafetyRisk.net
I have a teenage son who is showing signs of a typical teenage boy of grunts and ‘dunno’ replies to everything. It’s challenging as a parent and even more so for someone who tackles the art of listening and conversation in training almost everyday! I sit down and despair just as other parents do armed […]| SafetyRisk.net
I sat down with Rob Long earlier this week to have a chat about psychological safety. As with many discussions with Rob it ended up a mind mapping moment which we decided to capture on video and have shared below. The discussion in this video highlights what psychological safety is and is not. I shared […]| SafetyRisk.net
Originally posted on May 30, 2014 @ 2:04 PM Sammie’s Lament – A Powerless Purpose I spoke with Sammie the other day to get a sense of how things were going. I heard the all too familiar lament of, ‘no-one’s listened before why should I tell you my story now’? Sammie felt so despondent because […]| SafetyRisk.net
Dr Robert Long – PhD., (UWS) BEd., (USA) BTh., (SCD) MEd., (Syd) MOH (La Trobe), Dip T., Dip Min., MACE, CFSIA. Executive Director – Human Dymensions Pty Ltd Rob has a creative career in teaching, education, community services, government and management. Rob is engaged by organisations because of his expertise in culture, learning, risk and social psychology. He is a skilled presenter and designer of learning events, training and curriculum.| SafetyRisk.net
The word ‘culture’ has an agri-cultural origin and extends back thousands of years. We all accept the language and notion of agriculture as it denotes growing and living on the land. Before written text there are extensive semiotic and oral representations for the ethos of activity in and on the land. The Romans used the […]| 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
One of the most important things to know about culture is that it is beyond definition, proposition and mechanistic thinking. One can’t control, define or ‘engineer’ culture as if it is a ‘thing’. Indeed, this is one of the characteristics of discourse in safety about culture, usually coming from sources with no expertise in culture. […]| SafetyRisk.net
I recently read a claim by a Safety Consultant that they could eliminate injuries and improve safety culture by stopping humans from making errors – WT? Reminds me of the saying “The floggings will continue until morale improves”. Ask any elite athlete what happens when they ignore their “muscle memory” and focus too much on technique – they “Choke”! I was once so focused on impressing the policeman driving behind me that I forgot to indicate when changing lanes – GONE!. Dr ...| SafetyRisk.net
It is extraordinary the suffering that some people bear. I attended a wake recently for a young man who died from complications to do with diabetes and alcoholism, he was 45. He died alone with only a few friends who called in on him regularly. When I first knew him at the age of 16 […]| SafetyRisk.net
