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How to Leave the Safety Industry

August 6, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Related Post: I'm Just Not That Into Safety Anymore I regularly get contacts from people who want to leave the safety industry and don’t know how. Most often these people enter the industry with a passion for care and helping others. They often have a passion for learning. It doesn’t take long … [Read more...] about How to Leave the Safety Industry

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Professional, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter of Ethics, checklists

Culture Silences in Safety – What Culture Isn’t

August 7, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The word ‘culture’ in the risk and safety industry is used to mean many things and most often it doesn’t refer to culture. The most common misconceptions about culture in the safety industry reveal more about the presenter and a worldview, than a discussion of culture. If one really wants to … [Read more...] about Culture Silences in Safety – What Culture Isn’t

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Culture Silences Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Culture

When Only More Guilt Will Do

August 6, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

I Chose to Look The Other Way - When Only More Guilt Will Do The idea that I am my brother’s keeper (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-as-a-patriarchal-activity/) is a psychological attachment infused in the theology of safety. How interesting that safety is apparently a ‘choice I make’ yet the … [Read more...] about When Only More Guilt Will Do

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Poems Tagged With: chose to look the other way, guilt, Safety Poem

Keep Counting Every Time You Don’t Achieve Your Goal, That’s Professional

August 4, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 8 Comments

Keep Counting Every Time You Don’t Achieve Your Goal, That’s Professional One of the common attributes of the safety industry is speaking nonsense to people (https://safetyrisk.net/believe-the-impossible-and-speak-nonsense-to-people/ ). For an industry that has no interest in studying linguistics, … [Read more...] about Keep Counting Every Time You Don’t Achieve Your Goal, That’s Professional

Filed Under: Robert Long, Zero Harm

Safety and Non-Neuroscience

August 4, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 5 Comments

One thing you can be sure of, if Safety jumps out of its field of expertise in objects into anything to do with humans, it stuffs it up. This is no more pronounced in some of the material floating about in safety at the moment on Neuroscience. It’s amazing how Safety makes one qualified in … [Read more...] about Safety and Non-Neuroscience

Filed Under: Covid-19, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: epidemiology, jurisprudence, neuroscience, transdisciplinarity

Paperwork and Usability in Tackling Risk

August 3, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 4 Comments

Most workers don’t ‘use’ paperwork, they just sign it just as many workers don’t read paperwork they just give it the ‘tick and flick’. The idea of excessive paperwork in safety is much more a middle management problem than a worker problem. The real decisions on the job where the greatest risk is … [Read more...] about Paperwork and Usability in Tackling Risk

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Clutter, Safety systems, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems Tagged With: AIHS BoK, Document Usability, paperwork, transdisciplinarity

Safety as a Masculinist Activity

August 3, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Every time we run a program or workshop the number of females that attend is quite low. Indeed, it is extremely difficult to find women who have stayed long in the safety industry. It is also difficult to find any women in the safety industry who openly profess a Feminist ethic. A recent report … [Read more...] about Safety as a Masculinist Activity

Filed Under: Robert Long, Semiotics Tagged With: discourse analysis, feminism, masculinity, socialitie

You Don’t Want a Compliance Culture

August 3, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

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I often get asked if I teach programs on compliance and I say no, I teach about learning cultures. The last thing organisations need is a compliance culture. Compliance is most associated with adhering to standards or some regulatory requirement. Often compliance is associated with meeting minimal … [Read more...] about You Don’t Want a Compliance Culture

Filed Under: Compliance, Robert Long, Safety Legislation, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: compliance, safety compliance

The Soul of Mental Health

August 3, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 3 Comments

The idea of a ‘soul’ or life force (psyche) evolved out of the writings of Aristotle and the Pauline anthropology and is a word commonly used to refer to the hidden spirit of something. We often refer to the ‘soul’ of politics, law or the ‘soul’ of a nation. Sometimes we call a person a kind or … [Read more...] about The Soul of Mental Health

Filed Under: Mental health, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: holistic ergonomics, soul

Identity and Safety

August 3, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

The term identity politics has its source in the 1970s and defines the political identity of groups under various forms of oppression. Often this expression ‘identity politics’ is used pejoratively (https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/12/2/13718770/identity-politics ) and coupled with other silly … [Read more...] about Identity and Safety

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, discourse analysis, identity, language, transdisciplinarity

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