One of the best ways to hide harm is to campaign (propaganda) as the premier safety organisation in the world. The best way to do this is, to make up things like zero harm and the Bradley Curve to mask what is really going on.

In safety where critical thinking is discouraged, marketing rules, petty risk is counted and fraudulence is OK, you can claim what you want, use language in any nonsensical way (eg. 1% safer) or state what you are by what you are not. In this way critical thinking becomes un-safety and satisfaction in safety comes from slogans and counting injury rates.

What are we talking about here, the biggest cover up of toxicity in history, the poison of PFAS. What are PFAS? PFAS or Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of chemicals that have been used in manufacturing and added to consumer products since the 1950s. We now know them as ‘forever chemicals’ (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/what-are-pfas-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-forever-chemicals-surrounding-us-every-day).

If you want to know more about how all this works you can watch this:

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet

https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY?si=7VXe7iipXGWk4t5e

The best way to hide harm in safety is to: wave a big flag, churn out some snake oil, create a slush fund for academics, shout out good intentions, create a few slogans and make distractions become reality.

Nothing is better than a set of slogans and intentions to seduce Safety more deeply into its comfort zone. Most importantly, make no change in methodology or methods, and the crowds will follow. After all, truth comes in numbers.

Most Governments now don’t know what to do about PFAS that are in everything. In Australia we now have a taskforce looking into PFAS (https://www.pfas.gov.au/about-pfas/affects ). But we already know how toxic they are and they are already in your blood stream.

Zero harm indeed, 1% safer indeed. What a great way to hide and sanction harm.

How has this been done by Safety? It’s easy: condemn critical thinking, create a curriculum that adores the regulation, preach safety as duty (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-is-not-a-duty/), create pop-safety distractions (https://safetyrisk.net/when-you-dont-know-what-to-do-in-safety-dress-it-up/ ), make political thinking out of bounds, foster heroics, develop slogans and push ethics to the background.

So, gather around in conferences called ‘zero events’ (https://safetyrisk.net/how-to-escape-the-safetyzero-cult/), offer up virtues for safety culture, dictate the safety agenda to exclude ethics and critical thinking, make zero a ‘vision’ and all will be well.

Even better, declare something as critical thinking that involves no critical thinking (https://safetyrisk.net/paperwork-and-usability-in-tackling-risk/), make safety cultic by in and out-groupness, don’t countenance dissent but make a lot of noise so that nothing changes. This is the way (https://safetyrisk.net/best-fraud-in-safety-wins-this-is-the-way/).

SPoR Convention on Critical Thinking

If however, you want to learn how to think critically in safety then you are invited to the SPoR Convention in September: https://spor.com.au/spor-convention-2025/

You don’t need a pre-requisite to come along. You will meet many others who are not afraid of critical thinking, ethics or transdisciplinary thinking. And, leave with practical positive skills in how to tackle risk using methods that work (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/it-works-a-new-approach-to-risk-and-safety-book-for-free-download/).

One thing we don’t do, is hide harm in the name of good or develop distractions from tackling the realities of risk.