SEEK is one of the most successful programs offered by SPoR. This is because SEEK is anchored in an open approach to enquiry and not limited by the constraints of traditional safety. SEEK is not just a workshop but an introduction to a whole new way of looking at events and how they unfold. Who better to present such a program than Dr Nippin Anand, author of Are We Learning from Accidents?.

Nippin is offering the SEEK Investigations program in London from 14-16 May.

You can register and find out more about this workshop here: https://novellus.solutions/mec-events/032024-517/

Nippin delivers the SEEK Workshop (https://cllr.com.au/product/seek-the-social-psychology-of-event-investigations-unit-2-elearning/) from his considerable expertise as an Anthropologist, Master Mariner and expert in SPoR. Nippin’s popular podcasts (https://novellus.solutions/podcasts/) provide insight into his positive and constructive style of engagement. When you join a workshop with Nippin you are welcomed into moments of discovery, openness, positivity and constructive learning.

In this workshop, Nippin uses all he learned from the Costa Concordia disaster (https://novellus.solutions/insights/psychological-safety-at-work/) to help participants better understand the nature of accidents. However, this case study is just a small part of the workshop. The workshop explores other critical aspects of enquiry that are missing from many popular safety investigation methods. Whilst the case study demonstrates a range of blind spots in common approaches to investigation, it moves to the positive, teaching a new method for event exploration using the iCue© method.

The iCue Method™ is a visual verbal way of mapping that goes beyond traditional investigations methods and helps users ‘make the unconscious conscious’. The iCue method helps people become better listeners, more perceptive and humanise persons in the enquiry process. The iCue method is a great complement to traditional approaches to investigations because it provides unique insights into the social psychological and cultural nature of events. You can only learn the iCue Method from SPoR. The iCue Method is not like an ‘off the shelf’ checklist but rather, relies on skill development of the listener/facilitator.

If you chose to go to this workshop in London, you will learn iCue but also other SPoR methods in how to humanise persons in the process of investigating an event. Who better to help with helping others sensitise to the needs of persons in investigations than Nippin.

The recent HMNZS Manawanui Disaster (https://safetyrisk.net/framing-and-priming-investigations-the-manawanui-tragedy/) demonstrates the way in which culture resonates unconsciously underneath any event. Who better to help understand this cultural resonance than an Anthropologist like Nippin.

Those who attend the workshop will leave with new skills in investigating, a better understanding of culture and how many unseen factors contribute to the unfolding of an event. They will leave with a set of skills (not taught in traditional safety) about how to understand persons, events and cultural decision making.