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Hidden meaning in warning signs
Much can be learned about Culture by observing prohibition signs: what a society considers pure and impure; normal and taboo; ...
Do you know how to listen?
Do you know how to listen? And more importantly, what to listen to? In the last two weeks, I’ve had ...
Not getting enough value from audits? Replace your doormats
Last week I visited an Indian company with a branch office in Norway. Unlike all of their offices worldwide, I ...
Seduction and Simulacra in Safety
I was sent some astounding graphics the other day by someone who had reworked some SPoR symbols using AI. The ...
Psychosocial Contexts and Risk Factors
One of the benefits of thinking semiotically is an attraction to concept mapping. Concept mapping ‘affords’ a visual method for ...
Is Safety the Sum of What it Worships?
Whenever you see simplistic slogans in safety, you know that the origins of the slogan are based in ignorance and ...
Is the Quest to Eliminate Uncertainty Morally Good?
One of the qualities of being human is not-knowing with certainty. Indeed, an essential in being human is to ‘entertain ...
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
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
Once Safety adopts a model it loves, it is impossible to get rid of it. Such is the ‘sunk cost’ ...
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
There seems a naïve belief in the safety industry, that if one is in this industry, one is automatically morally ...