The language used in safety and its non-events, evokes greater absurdity as the industry continues to struggle for relevance. Soon it will simply run out of words to explain what it does. I had to laugh when I read about traditional safety being on ‘the cutting edge’ and being ‘revolutionary’ and then reading the content… Read More The Non-Revolution in Safety – SafetyRisk.net

In safety, many are familiar with Hudson’s expression ‘chronic unease’ or Weick’s ‘preoccupation with failure’ but in SPoR we prefer to use two expressions: ‘Entertain doubt’ and ‘suspend your agenda’ to convey a similar meaning. Of course, none of this aligns with the HOP con of ‘blame fixes nothing’ or ‘learning from normal work’. Indeed,… Read More Suspending Your Agenda to Begin Learning in Risk

Registrations for the Weick and HROing workshops for June have now closed. Weick’s definition of organising evolved over the years. In 1969 is was:  ‘the resolving of equivocality in an enacted environment by means of interlocked behaviors embedded in conditionally related processes’ Ten years later organizing was now defined as: ‘a consensually validated grammar for… Read More Weick’s Organising as ‘Consensually Validated Grammar’