There is perhaps no paper more important for people in safety to read than this: Fuchs, T., (2016) Interorporeality and Interaffectivity. University of Heidelberg. https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7256/7236 Unless safety learns to move away from the cartesian myth of brain-centrism and the dis-embodied understanding of learning, it will never understand why people do as they do. Everywhere we… Read More Embodied Being in Risk, Time to Change a Safety Belief – Free Workshops September

I found it interesting yesterday where I saw someone refer to them doing a ‘HOP walk’. I asked what is a HOP walk? (I thought maybe it was the game hop, skip and jump) I find it interesting that we have to brand the way we engage others by doing the basics of respect, listening,… Read More The Branded ‘x’ Walk in Safety

In today’s world, if you want to justify anything invoke the word ‘safety’. When you invoke the word ‘safety’: don’t speak about by-products or trade-offs, don’t discuss hidden unethical factors, don’t raise the issue of personhood, power or manipulation, don’t mention the word ‘surveillance’. Just get out those tools of Technique (Ellul) and sell another… Read More Safety, The Pathway to Surveillance Culture

The dismissive phrase, ‘it’s just semantics’ is a classic unintelligible retort, when language and words don’t matter. Whenever, I’m fed this kind of nonsense, I usually hurl a few offensive insults at the person or someone they love and when they get upset, I state, but it’s just semantics isn’t it?  It seems this phrase… Read More Slogans and Principles, It’s just Semantics Right?

We observe in professions like nursing and midwifery, clear principles for conduct (https://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au/codes-guidelines-statements/professional-standards). We see these presented for the teaching profession (https://www.aitsl.edu.au/docs/default-source/national-policy-framework/australian-professional-standards-for-teachers.pdf) and other professions (https://www.medicalboard.gov.au/Codes-Guidelines-Policies/Code-of-conduct.aspx). In these professions we see clear principles presented in Codes of Ethics, standards and other policy documentation that generally uphold principles of: beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy and justice (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7923912/ ).… Read More What Principles Guide Your Safety Ethic?