When we see the discourse of ‘psychosocial hazards’ we never hear anything about an ethic of personhood or moral harm. Yet, moral harm is a profoundly damaging part of the safety industry. Most often the industry is ignorant of moral harm because the industry has next to no emphasis on Ethics, moral philosophy or safety… Read More How Can Safety Cause Moral Injury and Harm?

We hear very little of socio-psychological safety and a great deal about psycho-social safety. Does it matter which you put first? Well yes and no, but you can’t have one without the other. Placing an emphasis on the psychological without the social is a critical omission in the common discourse about psycho-social risk. Placing an… Read More Bearing Burdens and Socio-Psychological Safety

I saw recently a so called ‘safety expert’ discussing the nature of safety methodologies. Despite no understanding what is methodology (philosophy) is, his discourse was, that it doesn’t matter what you believe in safety, it is method that matters. There can be no separation between methodology (philosophy), method (doing) and Ethics. This podcast is the… Read More More Safety Beliefs by Semiotics

Anyone who actually understands the nature of human decision-making, neuro-psychology and neuroscience, knows that the word ‘complacency’ explains nothing…. The post Stop Saying ‘Complacency’, Its Meaningless appeared first on SafetyRisk.net. brhttps://safetyrisk.net/stop-saying-complacency-its-meaningless/ Prompt

The drive to work efficiency is paradoxically also the drive to make humans work unconsciously in automaticity. Any, effort to engage in slow conscious rational thinking slows down the job to nearly a halt. Bargh (2007) (ede.) in Social Psychology and the Unconscious, The Automaticity of Higher Mental Processes. Psychology Press, New York, maps neatly… Read More We Don’t Want Workers to Think Consciously at Work