Safety Works in Mysterious Ways….

Signs On a Church Refurbishment Site

Spotted these signs on the fence of a Church refurbishment project today. When I saw the irony (is that what you would call it?), I laughed until I stopped……

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Curriculum and Bodies of Knowledge as Instructional Affordances

Curriculum and Bodies of Knowledge as Instructional Affordances An affordance is created by design eg. a chair affords ‘sitting’ by design, a cup affords ‘drinking’ by design, a ball afford ‘kicking’ by design and water is designed for drinking and swimming. Understanding affordance is foundational to safety in design, usability and ethics. If one was talking about document usability and didn’t investigate affordances, I wouldn’t waste my time in its study. It is quite odd that Safety expects people to ‘speak up’ about un-safety when the culture of blaming common in safety suppresses it. Blaming and shame create psychological affordances. Slogans create affordances like; ‘safety is a choice you make’, ‘all accidents are preventable’ create a belief state that confirms and affirms safety myths about determinism and power. Such slogans hide beliefs that shape thoughts and actions. If you want to understand the nature of affordance, the following are helpful: · Letiche, H., ...

Covid 1984 – The Shake Hands Maskerade and Vial Diplomacy

Covid 1984 – The Shake Hands Maskerade and Vial Diplomacy Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past George Orwell Boys from the Blackstuff was a highly acclaimed British television drama series written by the Liverpool playwright Alan Bleasdale . It was initially screened during the fall of 1982 following a period of fomenting civil unrest that culminated in the notorious inner city riots within its Toxteth district . Amidst the Thatcher-Reagan alliance with its rubric of trickle-down economics , profits were privatised and losses socialised. The ensuing wealth unlike blame failed to reach the downtrodden in the lowest echelons and that infamous sophism from the illegitimate daughter of Satan still resonates…….….. There is no such thing as society . Moreover, it reflects and aligns with the insipid vision of our peak safety body, which is merely a one trick dog and pony show and much...

Systems as Imagined v Systems in Practice

Systems as Imagined v Systems in Practice The recent NSW Supreme Court decision, Attorney General of New South Wales v Tho Services Limited (in liquidation) (ACN 000 263 678) [2016] NSWCCA 221 is another in a long line of decisions that highlight the disconnect between safety management systems as they are documented, and what occurs in practice. Documented safety processes are important. They provide guidance on how safety is managed and evidence that an organisation is meeting its obligations. However, where an accident reveals long-term, systemic non-compliance with obvious safety expectations documented safety processes do not provide a defence, often they do not provide mitigation, and in cases such as this they are an aggravating circumstance. As the Court noted: The vast range of induction and supervising protocols adopted by the respondent or in force at its premises serves not to relieve the respondent of its responsibility for safety but on...

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