A unique opportunity has arisen to study with Dr Barry Spud (BA., MA., MEd., PhD) in Safety Engineering. This four-day course offers a special chance to learn about a ‘different’ approach to Safety Engineering. Barry is suitably placed to teach this course under the following criteria. Barry has been teaching English/History and Linguistics for 32 […] The post Enrol in First Course in Safety Engineering with Dr Barry Spud  appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

There’s a huge difference between Safety trying to do Ethics and an Ethicist doing safety! Isn’t it bizarre that when Safety wants to learn about Ethics it asks an engineer, this is a classic example: Or when it wants to know about culture it asks an engineer whose tag identity is ‘the Indiana Jones of […] The post Safety, The Expert in Everything and the Art of Learning Nothing appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

Originally posted on April 7, 2014 @ 9:49 AMDo you know how to sell safety? Great article recently Posted by Marie-Claire Ross from Digicast – Read the whole article here A few similar ones you might also relate to: Safety Professionals–The Piggy in The Middle? Safety Professionals – We Are Our Own Worst Enemies Risk […] The post Do you know how to sell safety? appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

Originally posted on April 5, 2014 @ 1:44 PMVery thought provoking article by Dr Rob Long from Human Dymensions. To quote from the article: The idea that setting absolutist and perfectionist goals followed by punitive measures to achieve those goals, is a bankrupt model for motivation of risk and safety ownership. The model ignores hidden […] The post ‘False Consciousness’ and Perception in Risk and Safety appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

When we look at so much of what circulates in safety about ‘safety as a priority’ and togetherness in safety, it’s always just the same old stuff – golden rules, behaviourism and zero. The following is a typical example: https://togetherinsafety.info/ Having just completed the MiProfile Survey with one of the largest maritime organisations in the […] The post More of the Same Expecting a Different Outcome in Safety appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

Amongst the many myths of Safety one is that ‘safety starts with me’. This is individualist language that doesn’t help people manage risk. This myth combines with other myths such as ‘safety is a choice you make’ and ‘all accidents are preventable’. None of this language helps anyone and should be eradicated from any culture […] The post Dumb Safety Slogans and Myths appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

Whenever we conduct the MiProfile survey (https://www.humandymensions.com/services-and-programs/miprofile/), one of many critical criteria in analysis is the presence of ‘double speak’. I designed the survey 20 years ago and it has a comparative database of over 40,000. The survey is designed with the Social Psychology of Risk Methodology in Mind compared to most survey designs in […] The post A Tale of Two Worlds in Safety appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

I read Dekker’s theology on End of Heaven some years ago with its loaded biblical references and theological exegesis and wondered what is this fixation with science in safety? What is this attraction to the discourse and myth of the scientific method? (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-and-the-myth-of-scientific-method/). Why is it that this industry, infused with so much religious discourse […] The post No End of Heaven nor Scientific Age for Safety appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

Originally posted on March 25, 2014 @ 8:31 PMThe Seduction of Measurement in Risk and Safety Rather than measure what we value, we tend to value what we can measure Many safety mottos and mantras for organisations are sent to me and I recently saw one for a mantra and motto of ‘safety beyond measure’. […] The post The Seduction of Measurement in Risk and Safety appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more

Originally posted on March 13, 2014 @ 10:24 AMWhat’s Faith Got To Do With Safety Guest Post by Dr Rob Long from www.humandymensions.com Risk is all about uncertainty, and uncertainty is one of the things that characterises what it is to be human. There is little in human living that is certainly predictable, there is […] The post What’s Faith Got To Do With Safety appeared first on SafetyRisk.net ..read more