Whenever Hyper-Safety is on the scene, you can expect the suppression of any sense-making, intelligence or learning. We see this yet again, in another clanger from New Zealand.

Yet, we know from all the research (Amaberti, Taleb etc) that hyper-safety is not just unachievable but dangerous.

Hyper-safety makes people more vulnerable and fragile to risk. Hyper-safety is anti-safety.

There’s nothing worse than an ignorant safety crusader who thinks they are safety (https://safetyrisk.net/safety-is-not-your-life/).

When safety people start talking about safety as their identity and ‘safety as their life’, someone needs to quickly tell them to: ‘get a life’.

Not so on LinkedIn, such nonsense language gets applauded.

There’s nothing more dangerous to safety than a safety crusader! (https://safetyrisk.net/wowzers-and-crusaders-in-risk/).

What we learn from this article about seatbelts for Santa is, just how alienating and stupid Safety is. I wonder how many Santa’s in the past have fallen off floats going 3 kms an hour? None!

And, all of this nonsense came from a ‘’safety audit’!

Goodness me, sack the auditor and get in someone with some risk intelligence. Preferably NOT an engineer.

Hyper-safety is toxic for safety. Hyper-safety is lunacy for the industry that espouses that safety=zero (https://safetyrisk.net/safetyzero-culture/). When zero is your mantra, such ideology (https://safetyrisk.net/zero-risk/) is toxic for society.

When no injury is acceptable and safety is defined as injury rates, Safety becomes known as the moronic industry that can’t think. But make sure Safety that you keep repeating the word ‘professional’ as often as you can. That way people will identify the industry as professionally stupid.

This kind of safety on show at a Christmas parade is NOT about safety but rather, the political power of a small group seeking power through hyper-safety. Any consideration about an ethic of personhood for just a second, would throw out such nonsense for what it is – Safety trying to be relevant when it is not.

Examples of this kind of hyper-safety demonstrates that safety has a long way to before it can every claim to be professional or relevant.