Don’t Make Safety a Habit When I was in Canada I met a group of people in a safety association whose motto was ‘Make Safety a Habit’. When I met them I asked, ‘Do you think safety needs unthinking clones doing high risk tasks by habit’. I wasn’t the most popular person in the group at the time. … [Read more...] about Don’t Make Safety a Habit
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Body Memory and Safety
Body Memory and Safety The evidence for Muscle Memory and Body Memory is extensive (Chapter 1. The phenomenology of body memory ; Body Memory and the Unconscious ) and dispels the crazy brain-as-computer metaphor. The human mind (brain) is not the Human Mind. The idea that the body is somehow … [Read more...] about Body Memory and Safety
Our World is not your Ash Tray
Guest Post by Brian Darlington. His previous post: https://safetyrisk.net/my-thoughts-during-a-walk-in-the-forests-in-vienna/ In one of my previous blogs , I wrote about how crazy it is of governments to try control peoples habits like smoking during the lock-downs related to the Corona virus by … [Read more...] about Our World is not your Ash Tray
The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It
One of my favourites from the archives: The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It Being fallible doesn’t mean one is inevitably stupid, lazy, greedy or weak, there are as many advantages to being human and fallible as there are limitations. No one should want humans to be robotic - this would … [Read more...] about The Fallible Factor and What to Do About It
