We heard today from Minister Rowland (Communications) about the extent and severity of online harm. We are also nearing the ‘zero event’ congress that promises progressive, diverse and extensive coverage of issues critical to safety. This is where the promise is to ‘Grab your popcorn and be ready … [Read more...] about Critical Sources of Harm Ignored by Safety=Zero
Vision Zero
Zero and a Culture of Denial
If you watch the Zero Event promo (https://safety2023sydney.com/) you would be confused to think that safety is some kind of progressive, critical thinking outfit that tackles Transdisciplinarity. It doesn’t. You would also be confused to think that safety looks outside of its own echo chamber to … [Read more...] about Zero and a Culture of Denial
Shaping Change to Zero
One of the fascinating things about zero messaging is the normalisation of absurd contradictions in language. For example: the Safety and Health at Work ‘zero event’ congress website to be held soon in Sydney, states the mantra: ‘Shaping Change’ (https://safety2023sydney.com/ ). The last thing … [Read more...] about Shaping Change to Zero
Hey CEO? Does Zero Apply to You?
One of the fascinating characteristics of the zero cult is that it always comes ‘from above’, never below. Those at the coalface of risk, those from below know it is bullS*#t. Our Zero Survey (https://safetyrisk.net/take-the-zero-survey/) with over 4000 respondents demonstrates this … [Read more...] about Hey CEO? Does Zero Apply to You?
Safety as Zero, The Perfect Event
Zero is an ideology of perfectionism. I wonder what happens at a ‘zero event’ (https://safetyrisk.net/the-global-zero-event-this-is-safety/) if you make a mistake? We know from all the research that perfectionism is a mental health disorder … [Read more...] about Safety as Zero, The Perfect Event
Validating, Endorsing and Supporting Zero
It is so amusing watching organisations have a bet each way on zero. This is how one plays the religious ‘agnostic’ card to argue that zero is some kind of ‘global by-line’. This is the kind of religious language one uses to claim that zero is not religious. Such a strategy enables fraudulence to … [Read more...] about Validating, Endorsing and Supporting Zero
The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety
This is how Safety describes what it does. Here it is on full show. Come to Safety so you can have zero vision about risk. Do you want to count how many zero events safety has held recently. I guess a zero event means you had neither an event nor nothing to count? And anyone and … [Read more...] about The Global ‘Zero Event’, This is Safety
If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health
As long as Safety is founded in the nonsense of injury rate counting and zero, it will never ever be able to tackle the challenges of psychosocial health. The fundamental problem for Safety is, it doesn’t know what to do with fallibility, mortality, vulnerability, corporeal being and … [Read more...] about If You Can’t Manage Fallibility, You’ll Never Tackle Psychosocial Health
Don’t Be Dumb Like Me, the Typical Safety Keynote
One of the things Safety is so good at is wrong messaging that doesn’t work. This is because safety has no interest in Semiotics, Semiosis or Semantics. https://safetyrisk.net/congruence-in-messaging-in-safety/ https://safetyrisk.net/all-that-you-dont-see-in-messaging/ … [Read more...] about Don’t Be Dumb Like Me, the Typical Safety Keynote
Auditing the 7 Golden Rules of Zero, A Miserable Fail
One of the positive skills of learning SPoR is understanding the core elements of diagnostics, auditing culture and deconstructing meaning (semiosis) in organising. We do this with the unique MiProfile survey but also with other models of auditing. One such diagnostic is the ‘iCue Language … [Read more...] about Auditing the 7 Golden Rules of Zero, A Miserable Fail
