Originally posted on August 6, 2015 @ 7:13 PM An Introduction to Semiotics and Risk This video gives a brief introduction to semiotics and the unconscious in communication and decision making about risk. The video gives a visual and verbal overview of signs, signifiers, signified and significance, the foundation of semiotics. Through a study of… Read More An Introduction to Semiotics and Risk
Originally posted on August 7, 2015 @ 1:51 PM Investigating Our Batting Collapse I’m a cricket fan. I have been all my life and it’s one of the highlights of the year for me when my best mates and I head to a day or two watching the cricket, it’s an annual pilgrimage. You might… Read More Investigating Our Batting Collapse – SafetyRisk.net
There is little more that is entertaining than seeing Safety parade its myths as ‘principles’. Most of the time it’s just confirmation bias of some form of safety indoctrination. A classic example is anchored to the myths of safety investigations and its popular models like ICAM, 5whys, Tap Root, Root Cause etc. None of these… Read More The Myths of Safety Investigations and the Taste of Sausages
We use the word ‘energy’ as a metaphor for many things, often meaning: where our focus is, our sense of determination, motivation, passion or attention. However, none of these ‘energies’ can be measured indeed, if you try to measure them, you wreck them. Such are the myths of performance. There are no ‘measures’ for any… Read More Where is Your Energy Focused in Safety?
Try an interesting experiment and look up yourself using AI and see what you find. What can AI do? It can scan the past and trawl through what’s available online but it can’t think critically (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-critical-thinking-for-safety/ ), interpret, ask, think forward or embrace risk. Ever since AI has been a fad, I have not updated… Read More AI Looks Back, as Does Safety so, Where Will Innovation Come From?