Dr Craig Ashhurst and Dr Long are presenting a four-part series of workshops online on 4, 11, 18 and 25 March 7.30pm Canberra time. You can register here: admin@spor.com.au and download the flyer here: https://spor.com.au/ Each session will run for 90 minutes and will explore the skills of Leading, Managing and Supervising. The anchor for… Read More Leading, Managing and Supervising – Online Workshops March 2026

The Risk Diversity SEEK (Social psychology Event Exploration & Knowledge) Investigations Program is an event investigation program based on the foundations of a Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR). The program is unique as it applies the key principles of the Social Psychology of Risk to the way events are investigated. The Program assumes that events and investigations… Read More SEEK Investigations Workshop – Brisbane 3-5 March 2026

Originally posted on October 19, 2015 @ 2:08 PM Learning About Learning in Risk and Safety A Google search of ‘risk and safety training in Australia’ reveals more than 103,000,000 results. The focus of such training seems to be programming people to absorb information on legislation, safety processes and engineering based subjects. This seems to… Read More Learning About Learning in Risk and Safety

On a recent trip to Darwin I was standing in line, waiting to board the plane when I spied  a young person wearing this T-Shirt. What an incredibly profound statement! When I go into organisations I see plenty of paperwork. Without getting into a competition, I have seen an 80 page Safe Work Method Statement… Read More How do you Communicate? – SafetyRisk.net

From Heinrich to Dekker, the safety world loves to use the word ‘science’ to validate what it does. The word ‘science’ in safety is a just a brand, like MAGA, it doesn’t mean anything ‘scientific’ is going on just as MAGA is making nothing ‘great’. It’s just more ‘noise’. But, goodness me, its sounds good… Read More Using The Label of ‘Science’ to Validate Safety Mythology