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Just Tell Your Mind to Stop It

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Just Tell Your Mind to Stop It I saw a classic this week that was posted on Linkedin from a safety ‘thought leader’. It was a model that proposed how one could ‘control’ the unconscious by consciousness. The assumption of the model was that ‘not thinking’ was the ‘first cause’ of the safety … [Read more...] about Just Tell Your Mind to Stop It

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: thinking, unconscious mind

Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety

June 28, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety Great to read a piece on the Safety Differently site that situates systems within a social and societal context (Thinking Differently about incident investigations). One of the strange things about the tradition of safety is its maintenance of the myth of … [Read more...] about Critical Thinking and Questioning in Safety

Filed Under: critical thinking, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: icam, root cause, safety differently, thinking, tradition

A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations

June 24, 2023 by Admin 1 Comment

I’ve recently seen and done a few incident investigations which really fell short of any mark except for ticking the box on the form that says ‘investigation completed’. There are ongoing debates about whether ICAM is better than TapRoot or if that is better than Root Cause Analysis or BowTie or … [Read more...] about A Much Better Way To Think About Incident Investigations

Filed Under: Accidents and Incidents, Investigation, Learning, Robert Long, Safety Differently Tagged With: icam, incident investigation, taproot, thinking, thinking clock

Wrong-Headed Safety

December 13, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 8 Comments

So much about the safety industry is about wrong thinking. The STEM-only worldview has us convinced that good safety is about rationality and cognition. This worldview has us convinced in typical binary framing that the emotions and rationality are opposites. Yet this is not how we live. This … [Read more...] about Wrong-Headed Safety

Filed Under: Mental health, Robert Long Tagged With: STEM, thinking

Unthinkable

November 24, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Unthinkable As we listen to the responses to the Australian Cricket team ball tampering affair we hear that most people think that the team was thinking rationally about cheating. Many attribute the work of conspiracy to the issue as if the senior players ‘planned’ rationally to cheat. Only a few … [Read more...] about Unthinkable

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: cricket, thinking

What to Say Instead Of Be Careful

September 3, 2018 by Admin Leave a Comment

What to Say Instead Of Be Careful Not often you find gems on Linkedin (see poster below) and this is juxtaposed lately with posts about 10 Golden Rules and “who’s to blame” videos. Most legislation requires consultation with the work force and those actually exposed to the risks – many seem to … [Read more...] about What to Say Instead Of Be Careful

Filed Under: Humble Inquiry Tagged With: Take 5, thinking

Risk Intelligence, Thinking and Decision Making

December 27, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

Risk Intelligence, Thinking and Decision Making A recent article by Dylan Evans (Risk Intelligence) in October 2016 rightly challenges the construct of Kahneman (Thinking fast and Slow). Evans states: ‘This is fine as far as it goes, but it leaves a crucial third kind of thinking out of the … [Read more...] about Risk Intelligence, Thinking and Decision Making

Filed Under: Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: decision making, risk intelligence, thinking

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December 1, 2015 by James Parkinson 31 Comments

James Parkinson asked me to post this for him. James is a good, very down to earth bloke on a journey to unlearn traditional safety. He has only just started but, reading back on some of his original comments on this blog, he has already come along way since his first light bulb moment. I am sure he … [Read more...] about Think

Filed Under: Workplace Safety Tagged With: thinking

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