I was talking to a COO yesterday about their attempts to improve their Organisational Culture. They had been using a scattergun approach using LinkedIn Lectures, Simon Sinek and BBS, and not getting the results they wanted. In fact, when pushed to what results they wanted, it was explained as a ‘better Culture’. Said COO could… Read More A Book to Help Get You Started on Cultural Improvement in Risk
One of the fascinating things about zero messaging is the normalisation of absurd contradictions in language. For example: the Safety and Health at Work ‘zero event’ congress website to be held soon in Sydney, states the mantra: ‘Shaping Change’ (https://safety2023sydney.com/ ). The last thing traditional safety wants is change. Change in anything for humans involves… Read More Shaping Change to Zero – SafetyRisk.net
Matt and I launched our new book SPoR and Semiotics without much fanfare and this was quite deliberate. This is the thirteenth book released in the Social Psychology of Risk and brings together all of the tools, methods, semiotics and models practiced by SPoR. (FYI, downloads of SPoR books now exceeds 750,000) SPoR and Semiotics… Read More SPoR and Semiotics, A Conversation
I was recently asked about Risk Intelligence by one of our 30-year experienced safety people in SPoR, George Stavrou. George has completed many modules in SPoR and always comes up with great questions whenever we do study together. His questions recently were: How can organisations create risk intelligence? A question on learning and training. (I… Read More Risk Intelligence and What to Do About It – A Video
Isn’t it funny how critique of my work on Zero only goes one way. Fancy being criticised for being too harsh on Zero?!#?! Here we have the most divisive ideology in safety, the ultimate extremism, something not believed by safety people (https://safetyrisk.net/update-on-zero-survey-just-believe/) that has a trajectory of brutalism and the critique is: being harsh. I… Read More The Traffic in Zero Only Goes One Way