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SafetyRisk.Net is a resource for exploring the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR), offering a fresh and thought-provoking perspective on safety, risk, culture, leadership and learning. Moving beyond traditional safety, compliance and zero-harm thinking, this site examines how people make sense of risk through relationships, ethics, fallibility, trust and social interaction. With more than 2,000 articles, videos and free resources, SafetyRisk.net challenges conventional safety assumptions and provides practical insights for those seeking a more human-centred approach to understanding risk and helping people tackle risk more effectively.
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Trick or Audit? Barry and Sadie Become Halloween Costumes
By Barry Spud, Certified Fright Leader and Seasonal Compliance Specialist I have spent years building a professional reputation based on ...
HOP Differently: Five Improved Principles and One Additional Revenue Stream
By Barry Spud, Founder of HOP 2, Certified in My Own Methodology When I first discovered HOP, I saw enormous ...
Beyond Zero: Barry and Sadie Announce the Biggest Safety Conference Ever
By Barry Spud, Certified Thought Leader, Pending Payment An email from ISSA arrived today advertising the World Congress on Safety ...
Understanding Cultural Turbulence, A Video
We have made a brief seven-minute video to help people better understand culture and cultural turbulence in risk and safety ...
Risk Maturity and SPoR, A Video
Thanks to Matt Thorne for another neat video that helps explain a SPoR semiotic view of risk maturity. This seven-minute ...
Barry Spud Discovers Con Text: Finally, a Principle He Understands
An original Barry Spud satire. For months, I have enthusiastically supported the statement “Context drives behaviour.” Unfortunately, I first heard ...
Risk is Relative to Context but Context Doesn’t Drive Behaviour
There is a fascinating story to be told of my grandfather and his family and the shifting of the town ...
Fear Pays: Barry Spud’s Guide to Turning Anxiety into Annual Revenue
An original satire about selling reassurance while leaving the problems untouched. People often ask how I make a living from ...
Wearable Safety: Now the Procedure Can Wear You
By Barry Spud — inventor, innovator and distributor of rechargeable reassurance. For years, PPE has suffered from a serious design ...
Psychosocial Safety – Are We Improving Work or Just Adding More Compliance
Sent in by a subscriber An organisation launches a psychosocial safety campaign. Workers complete another survey, supervisors attend another briefing, ...
Sadie Reviews the COVID Procedures: Bringing Control Back to Work
An original Barry Spud satire. The five-year review rule requires every procedure to be reviewed whether it still serves a ...
The People Versus Barry Spud: “I Am Safety”—Until Someone Blames the System
An original mock-courtroom satire. Sadie Tater presides over the fictional Court of Safety Contradictions. I have always maintained that I ...