Safety Cosmetics One of the grand activities of keeping up with safety systems is keeping up appearances. The idea that paperwork obesity is a healthy thing is a strange cultural myth in the safety industry (https://vimeo.com/162034157 ). If in doubt, add more in. It is a strange belief in the … [Read more...] about Safety Cosmetics
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Visual, Verbal and Relational Mapping in Risk Assessment
One of the foundations for SPoR is Semiotics. Understanding semiotics, semiosis, semantics, the semiosphere and semiology is essential for understanding culture (https://safetyrisk.net/culture-silences-in-safety-semiotics/). Not so Safety. Poor olde Safety is so locked into the delusions of … [Read more...] about Visual, Verbal and Relational Mapping in Risk Assessment
Risk iCue Video
The foundational tool in SPoR for tackling risk is the Risk iCue method. Risk iCue method is a graphical, relational, verbal and visual way of understanding risk. The method requires significant level of training in open questioning, listening and reflection. This is the first video in a series … [Read more...] about Risk iCue Video
Psychosocial Safety, I think it is about a 7?
In the middle of last year I was asked to help a multinational Tier 1 construction company to help with their thinking on a major project that was about to be rolled out. This company knew there were cultural issues that would affect people negatively. The morning of this meeting we did a … [Read more...] about Psychosocial Safety, I think it is about a 7?
Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk
Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk One of the beauties of fallibility is what Alan Watts called The Wisdom of Insecurity . Watts describes how binary worldviews create fear and dogma, making people frightened and concocting securities that don’t exist. Watts thinking helps one step out of … [Read more...] about Foresight Blindness, Hindsight Bias and Risk
Indicators of Risk
Indicators of Risk I often get sent presentations and training formats from safety people seeking my expertise on improvement, learning design and critique of safety presentations. One thing safety people are not educated in is teaching, curriculum and learning. Amazing how the industry throws … [Read more...] about Indicators of Risk
My Journey with SPoR
Sometimes we get feedback from people in risk and safety for whom SPoR has transformed the way they tackle risk. On most occasions we don’t hear back from the many thousands who access all that is free and downloadable in SPoR. This week I received a wonderful note from someone in the UK and … [Read more...] about My Journey with SPoR
Meeting is NOT About Technique
Meeting is NOT About Technique I have received an amazing amount of feedback on my piece on Meeting (https://safetyrisk.net/meeting-in-safety-with-no-meeting/ ). So, this blog seeks to extend the discussion a little further. Ellul’s notion of Technique proposes that any quest for efficiency in … [Read more...] about Meeting is NOT About Technique
iCue Education Pack to Enable Learning in the SPoR Approach to Risk
iCue Education Pack to Enable Learning in the SPoR Approach to Risk The next free Introduction to SPoR will be conducted in April 2022, you can register HERE. The limit is to 50 people and already 20 are enrolled. There are still a few places in the free SEEK and Semiotics modules starting … [Read more...] about iCue Education Pack to Enable Learning in the SPoR Approach to Risk
Balancing Open and Closed Systems in Risk
Balancing Open and Closed Systems in Risk One of the lessons of Greg Smith’s book ‘Paper Safe’ is that completed systems in themselves are not an assurance of safety. Similarly, our series on Due Diligence (https://cllr.com.au/product/due-diligence-workshop-unit-13-elearning/ ) and resources … [Read more...] about Balancing Open and Closed Systems in Risk
