Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Man’s inhumanity to man makes countless thousands mourn!
Robert Burns
Welcome to the Australian Hinstitute of Heinrich and Skinner fake newsletter for October 2020. This special edition coincides with National Safe Work Month and commemorates several notorious disasters, which include Aberfan in South Wales and the West … Learn more >>>>>
The problem with blind compliance is that it makes people co-dependent on systems designed off the job, in abstract formulation, according some other person’s interpretation of risk that sits in a cupboard and is out of date by the time the drawer of the … Learn more >>>>>
Two of the active cultural by-products of excessive paperwork and Papersafe safety (https://www.waylandlegal.com.au/post/paper-safe) are Tick n’ Flick-Set n’ Forget.
Tick n’ Flick-Set n’ Forget are co-joined heuristics people develop as habits for completing something as quickly as possible due to desensitization (https://safetyrisk.net/desensitisation-the-by-product-of-ill-conceived-safety-initiatives/… Learn more >>>>>
There’s a lot of simplistic stuff in relation to Covid19 about ‘rights’, ‘freedoms’ and ‘personal liberties’ ( Protests have been criminalised under COVID. What is incitement? How is it being used in the pandemic? ) One thing is for sure, when you hear simplistic binary language … Learn more >>>>>
The foundation of professionalism is Ethics. Without such a foundation one can masquerade and parade about all kinds of unethical nonsense as good. This is why safety more than any industry needs an Ethic of Risk and doesn’t have one. The poor excuse for an … Learn more >>>>>
