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Risk is Phenomenal

Risk is Phenomenal

The Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) is founded on an Existentialist Phenomenological Christian Dialectic. This has been explained in many ...
Conversations on SPoR With Aneta and Brian Darlington

Conversations on SPoR With Aneta and Brian Darlington

This week has been a week of conversation, coaching and learning in SPoR in Canberra with Aneta and Brian Darlington ...
Watch Out Bradley, Your Instincts Are Showing

Watch Out Bradley, Your Instincts Are Showing

Once Safety adopts a model it loves, it is impossible to get rid of it. Such is the ‘sunk cost’ ...
Educating Safety

Educating Safety

Hopkins writes in Narrative Schooling (1994) (p.79): Merely having an experience, therefore, of school or anything else, is not to ...
The Morality of Safety

The Morality of Safety

There seems a naïve belief in the safety industry, that if one is in this industry, one is automatically morally ...
The Binary Seduction in Safety

The Binary Seduction in Safety

I have written about the binary attraction before: https://safetyrisk.net/?s=Binary and yet so often it continues to be the attraction in ...
Zero in 100 Days, I’m 1% Safer

Zero in 100 Days, I’m 1% Safer

You can’t beat some of the best con’s delivered in the name of safety. So, when zero doesn’t stick and ...
Affordances and Risk

Affordances and Risk

J. J. Gibson was first to use the term ‘affordance’ to refer to the actional properties that exists between the ...
Embouchure, Affordance and Learning in Risk

Embouchure, Affordance and Learning in Risk

There is no ‘fast and slow’ in learning and learning development. Kahneman was wrong in suggesting that human enaction was ...
Sartre, Safety and the Problem of Human Choice

Sartre, Safety and the Problem of Human Choice

by Simon Renatus Safety has a great deal to say about choice, and about holding people accountable for the choices ...
Following-Leading in Risk, Supplement. Free Download

Following-Leading in Risk, Supplement. Free Download

Dr Ashhurst and Dr Long are pleased to announce their new book: Following-Leading in Risk, A Supplement. This is book ...
Safety Culture and the Culture of Safety

Safety Culture and the Culture of Safety

I’m yet to read a text or hear a discussion in safety that tackles the essentials of culture in any ...