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In this session, I will illustrate how to map an accident investigation on a whiteboard and illustrate step by step: 1. how to learn from events 2. how to recognise our biases 3. how to improve our decisions And as always, we will end with a good conversation.
Where do you look for the meaning of words? Dictionaries, I guess? Word meanings are not to be found in dictionaries; word meanings are found in metaphors. All language is metaphorical, and we don’t just speak metaphorically; we live by our metaphors. In this podcast, David and Nippin compare a handful of metaphors in Banking and Maritime. Through this comparison they realise that words don’t just create worlds, but they also create divides between worldviews. Too often, we miss a crucial point in organising – you cannot organise me and I will never become part of your organisation if we don’t share the same worldview. Such is the power of metaphors.
A semiotic walk to a Church in Chennai with Dr Robert Long. Semiotics is the study of signs and symbols. In this semiotic walk, Dr Long, a world renowned expert in Semiotics, Theology and Linguistics, explains how semiotic walks can make us curious and culturally intelligent.
In this podcast, I discuss the impact of binary and absolute slogans on perception and behaviour, by drawing upon “Context is everything” as an example. These slogans undermine critical thinking and promote an absolute view where individuals are rendered powerless. I share a case where a workshop participant criticised my methods for not addressing structural issues, highlighting the industry’s focus on efficiency over empathy. I emphasise the importance of critical thinking, challenging assumptions, and recognising the dialectical relationship between context and behaviour. I encourage listeners to be mindful of slogans and to embrace change and learning.
In this podcast, I share some thoughts about the limitations of root cause analysis as a method (or a tool) for investigations and audits based on a social experiment. Linear, deductive reasoning has many limitations because it seeks simplistic answers to ethical and political problems that are inherently messy, non-linear and largely operate in the unconscious space. You can read my blogs and books if you wish to go deeper into this topic.
In this podcast, Rob, Matt and Nippin discuss the limitations of bounded rationality after being together in India and conducting a range of social experiments. What surprised them all was the power of sequential, rote learning that is embedded in the Asian Culture and how it challenges some of our fundamental idea about how humans unlearn, learn and make decisions.
Often people involved in accidents will tell us that the process of accident investigation was far more stressful and even traumatic than the experience of the accident. Our models and methods of investigation end up causing more harm than good to people. In this video, we will learn how to reconcile trauma, healing and learning in an accident investigation not only from the point of view of those involved but also for those responsible for investigating the accidents. How do we reconcile learning and healing? Give this podcast a listen.
Often people involved in accidents will tell us that the process of accident investigation was far more stressful and even traumatic than the experience of the accident. Our models and methods of investigation end up causing more harm than good to people. In this video, we will learn how to reconcile trauma, healing and learning in an accident investigation not only from the point of view of those involved but also for those responsible for investigating the accidents. How do we reconcile learning and healing? Give this podcast a listen.
This is a pre-recorded session where we discussed how to learn from accidents using practical frameworks based on Social Psychology of Risk. Questions we considered: 1. Why learning should be our prime focus in investigation 2. How to listen to the cues of risk in an accident investigation (and events) 3. How listening can help us to improve decision making and proactively manage the risks The session is interactive and grounded in practical application but at the same time founded in a sound transdisciplinary body of knowledge referred to as the Social Psychology of Risk.
After spending three days at a conference in Chennai, I sat down with a young student to understand what she took away from our time together. In this video, Shrinidhi Shankar, a research student at IIT Madras in India reflects on our time together at a safety conference. Shrinidhi offers many thoughtful reflections including the importance of building trust, listening, staying grounded, lifelong learning and humility. But what is the basis of this profound wisdom? Shrinidhi thinks it is her parenting values. What values are we passing to our children? Listen to her wise word, this is a profound lesson in learning, leadership and humility.
Do you have a strategy for learning? In this video we will find out how to create an investigation strategy that aligns with the investigation process in order to foster a culture of learning.
Earlier this year, I interviewed a seafarer whose brother went missing at sea. We don’t know under what circumstances Captain Mathew (name anonymised) went missing or, if you like, what was the cause of this accident. Unfortunately, the sea does not provide many answers but this painful story, told from his brother’s perspective who also happens to be a seafarer, reveals the dark side of the Zero Harm ideology. There’s a lot of debates and discussions in the risk and safety industry whether Zero should be a goal or not. There are practitioners, academics and researchers who believe that there is nothing wrong with having Zero as an aspiration. I hope that this story will serve to slow people down and think about how a seemingly aspiring goal translates into practice in global shipping. I call it a true story but it is shaped by my biased and subjective views. True only to the extent that some may find resonance with this story while others find it deeply uncomfortable.
Many organisations declare safety as one of the values in the vision and mission statements. Can safety be a value? When fallible humans conduct high risk operations, there is no certainty that people will not get injured. When people do get injured we have failed to live by our values. In this video, instead of making an argument, we will use a personal story to illustrate why safety cannot be a value.
This podcast is based on the work of the American Anthropologist Ernest Becker’s perennial thesis – ‘the denial of death’. In this podcast, Professor Sheldon Solomon explains how death anxiety, which is unique to the human species, leads to a quest for meaning, self-esteem and cultural worldviews. Solomon explains why it is so important for us take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding culture and why we must synthesise the wisdom of ages and sages and combine it with science if we truly want to make sense of human behaviour.
We will discuss: Why do humans fear death? How do we react and how do we relate with others when we are confronted with death? How does this explain President Trump’s reaction to Washington midair collision?
In less than 12 hours, President Trump blamed that DEI was behind the Washington mid-air collision. How did Trump connect so many dots at the speed of light and establish what went wrong with such conviction? And why do so many buy into this DEI ideology as the cause of the accident? In this podcast, I suggest that the president is using fear of death to heighten public anxiety, create a divide and spread hatred in the society.
We will discuss: Why do humans fear death? How do we react and how do we relate with others when we are confronted with death? How does this explain President Trump’s reaction to Washington midair collision?
Myth busting i.e. viewing a myth as a false story, is a political ideology. It is not science. Myth busting creates differences and it spreads hatred in the society. In a culturally diverse society, understanding myth busting is our pathway to cultural intelligence and improving our relationships with others. In this podcast, I will explain what is a myth and why myth busting should concern the risk and safety industry and our society at large. What are the dangers of myth busting and how we can avoid falling into this trap.
We will discuss: What is a myth? A short story of a myth. What is the power of a myth? What is myth busting? Why myth busting is an ideology (not science)? Why myth busting should concern us?
This is a conversation that should make us all think about how we as a species have understood and worked with cultural differences historically and across geographies. I’m privileged to be joined by Professor Emerita Kathleen Mahoney specialising in international human rights, humanitarian law, feminist legal theory, Indigenous legal traditions, residential school litigation, and tort law. Professor Mahony is, amongst many things, • Fellow of Royal Society of Canada • Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights • Member of the Law Societies of Alberta and Manitoba • King’s Counsel Along with Professor Mahoney, I am also joined by Larry Phil Fontaines, an Indigenous Canadian leader and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, best known for his central role in raising public awareness of the Canadian Indian residential school system and pushing to secure Federal and Papal apologies in 2008 and 2022 respectively.
A conversation with the internationally renowned expert Professor Kathleen Mahoney and Larry Phil Fontaines. We discuss the biases in the legal system and what it takes to reform the culture. This is a short video where we discuss the hidden biases and assumptions in the legal system and how surfacing those biases can create the opportunities for culture change using a true story.
What happens when someone by-passes an alarm, turns the wrong valve on the manifold, ignores a barrier, or leaves a winch lever unattended. Where does your imagination take you? What questions come to your mind? Whatever model you follow, whatever methods you use, everything begins with our assumptions about how the human mind and what does it even mean to be a human being? Much of risk and safety – new or old, traditional or contemporary, 1 or 2 – implicitly assumes that the mind is encased in the brain and we are caught between the left brain / right brain metaphor. Would you like to understand the science behind decision making? Would you like to find out what leading thinkers and cutting-edge research has to say about the human mind? In this visual story, we will discuss why thinking about the mind as the brain is not only misleading but also unethical at many levels. This brain-centred approach to investigating accidents, and more generally, risk, safety and learning turns human beings into objects for measurement and hazards that need to be controlled. We will discuss how to approach accident investigations, how to engage with people and how to ethically, sensibly and practically learn from accidents. This story is full of practical examples and it is based on my recent book, Are We Learning from Accidents? You can read my book here: https://nippinanand.com/
This episode on the Practice of Framing is a follow on from my previous episode – the Power of Framing 
• Why don’t people speak up? The Power … where I discussed the problem of ‘speak up’ using the Costa Concordia story. In this episode we will discuss how to put framing in practice and why reframing is so critical for unlearning and learning. A brief outline of this discussion. 1. We will begin with a little experiment on framing 2. We will then discuss what framing really means. 3. How our current framing of risk and safety discourse (language) impedes learning. 4. Why reframing holds the key for unlearning and learning 5. And finally I will suggest some readings and courses for those who wish to learn. Many of us think of framing as a technique or a method. Reframing is not a technique. It’s how we relate with the world. How we see another person. Do we see them as objects to be measured? Do we see them as hazards to be controlled? Or do we really see them as people. whole person with whom we should meet and have a conversation.
In 2012 the passenger ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy, resulting in the death of 32 people. The captain was criticised for his casual attitude towards formulating the ship’s voyage plan, sailing 0.5 miles too close to the coast, and ‘disregarding to properly consider the distance from the coast’. The captain was sentenced to 16 years in the prison. While the rest of the world (including leading experts in the industry) criticised the captain for navigating the safe too close to the islands. even five years after the accident when I met the captain in his hometown he maintained that this was a normal practice in the cruise industry. It was a powerful insight into the culture of the cruise industry. In this episode, we will discuss why culture is so often misunderstood within the risk and safety industry using this story.
In this video, we discuss how to understand and improve the safety culture in our organizations. The methodology illustrated in this video is referred to MiProfile is based on Social Psychology of Risk meaning how do people make decisions in groups (large and small). The MiProfile survey is more than just a survey. As we explain in the video, the survey is also an exercise in experiencing how human beings make decisions under pressure and how our unconscious beliefs come to surface within a few minutes. The survey design examines sensemaking, implicit knowledge and cognitive dissonance in the group – how far will a group of people hold to their beliefs when they are put under pressure and how can we bring their beliefs to the surface.
In this episode, I will present the power of framing using the story of the Costa Concordia accident. How we frame our questions and statements determines what we really learn from accidents. Framing is more than just a technique; it’s how we see the world and what we believe is morally right or wrong. Framing and reframing is where learning begins.
The next episode in the series will focus on normalisation of risk and safety culture.
This podcast explores mindfulness and its significant impact on risk reduction, highlighting its benefits in healthcare for both patient care and practitioner well-being. It delves into the synergy between the unconscious and conscious minds, emphasizing the value of making the unconscious conscious. We’ll also examine “weak signals,” subtle organizational anomalies that can reveal serious issues, and how mindfulness can enhance our ability to detect these signals, improve listening, and foster empathy. Finally, we’ll discuss the importance of friendship and relationships, showing how having a friend at work can boost performance and well-being by surfacing unconscious thoughts for better decision-making and risk mitigation. Our aim is to help you stay present, connected, and safe.
This podcast discussion represents two people from different parts of the globe with different backgrounds looking for common ground.As you listen you can initially hear different perspectives and perceptions. It felt that we began to synchronize at some point and eventually arrived at the same place. It should not be surprising. There are 8 billion of us on the planet. While we all may look completely different; we are designed exactly the same. When we move to defend our belief’s, we often sacrifice the ability to move forward and seek the learning that is necessary to raise the discussion to higher understanding. Curiosity initiates logic, reason and intuition. Defense moves us to justify and rationalize a belief or an action in the past. Forward is the future we are trying to shape. Backward is the past we cannot change.We own our belief’s. There is no reason to defend them. Someone with different belief’s is not a threat to ours. Someone else cannot steal our belief. However, if we are curious and listen to others, we can then decide for ourselves if new information somehow may shape our change our current belief. We don’t have to like another’s perspective or their idea. We just have to listen.As you listen to this podcast, see if you can hear how the different perspectives begin to align. We can release and discover potential in each other, or we can suppress it. We have that power.
The question is, are you willing to walk through the door?
This podcast started off with reflecting on the power of embracing fallibility. Dr John Flach, my guest, then brought his own experiences and how a renowned scientist helped him and supported him when he experienced a setback in life. We then spoke about kindness and briefly touched on the importance of social resilience. The discussion then moved from kindness to humility and the importance of humility in understanding and learning from surprises. From humility we moved into courage and why courage is so important to break free from dogma and become critical thinkers. We ended this session with the importance of metaphysics, meaning making and methodology. Our discussion ended with why we need to be more kind and humble to pursue science.
Gilval Menezes, Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira talk about their learning journey of SPoR and about what makes it difficult to bring SPoR into organisations.
Most of us have come to master techniques and methods. But as much as we may have learned through that journey, very few people have ever stepped away from the methodology on which they were initially trained (i.e. engineering, psychology, sociology…). The way in which they ask questions about the world, rarely shifts.
The difficult challenge comes from shifting you methodology. And learning about SPoR very often demands a painful and lengthy journey, throughout which you have to break the mould, shatter deeply rooted beliefs, and embrace the uncertainty of what may lie ahead. This is what it takes to learn a different methodology.
Motivation, purpose and a search for meaning: An interview with Greg Smith
This is the third in a series of three podcast with Greg Smith, the author of the book Paper Safe. In this podcast Greg and I discuss the notion of critical risks and critical risk management from a legal and strategic risk management perspective. We hope that this podcast will make you more mindful and critical about how to think about critical risks in your organisation.
Motivation, purpose and a search for meaning: An interview with Greg Smith
This is the second in a series of three podcast with Greg Smith, the author of the book Paper Safe. In this podcast Greg and I discuss his new book Proving Safety, why he chose the title and the subtitle, and how is the book different from his previous book Paper Safe.
Motivation, purpose and a search for meaning: An interview with Greg Smith
This is the first in a series of three in-person podcasts between Greg Smith and Dr Nippin Anand. Nippin started off interviewing Greg in his hometown Perth to find out what motivated him to choose a career path in health and safety law. Later in this series, the two will discuss Greg’s new book Proving Safety and their take on how organisations understand and address critical risks.
This podcast is a discussion between Ron Gant and Nippin Anand about learning within the context of accident investigations. Ron and Nippin discuss the underlying beliefs, myths and the narratives of accident investigations and what it takes to learn from accidents. The podcast is based on Nippin’s recent book, ‘Are we learning from accidents?’
Further details about the book can be found here:
https://novellus.solutions/product/are-we-learning-from-accidents-nippin-anand/
In this podcast, Greg and Nippin discuss how can we learn from accidents. Greg asks Nippin a range of questions including who needs to learn, why we need to learn, and whether or not learning is even an issue of importance within organisations. You will discover some uncomfortable truths and deep-seated beliefs about how investigations are conducted and why we are so far away from learning from accidents.
In this podcast, Nippin speaks with Ivan Pupulidy and Crista Vesel about their latest book, ‘Human and Organisational Potential.’ The two authors discuss the motivation to write the book and the practical benefits that this book to the risk and safety world and how it will make our world a better place.
What is a myth? Can science ever replace myth? And if it did, what would we replace it with? Here’s a podcast shot in an Indian temple with my two friends Rob Long and Matthew Thorne discussing myth, mythology and mythosphere.
I hope this podcast will give you an alternative view on myth and why human beings can never do away with myth even in this day and age or in the future.
We often hear during risk and safety discussions that methodology does not matter, methods don’t matter, philosophy doesn’t matter, what matters is results, what matters is that whatever we set to achieve – we can achieve. And so, results matter, process is not important. Is that so?
What is a methodology? Why do we need one? Can we escape methodology and method? What are we really saying when we say that methodology does not matter? Can we ever abandon methodology? What is the hidden message here? What are the dangers of falling in the trap of a ‘methodology free’ world?
I hope this podcast will make you think and reflect on a simple question – what is your methodology when it comes to tackling risk? And should that matter?
The podcast was done on a motorway whilst driving in Chennai, India.
This is the second in a series of 2 episodes on psychosocial harm. The question we ask in this two-part series – how safety practices can do more harm than good? In the first episode, our focus was more on understanding the problem of psychosocial harm from a legal and organisational perspective. In this episode, we focus on some practical ways to address these issues. I hope you will enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed creating this episode and it will make you think and reflect.
This is the first of a series of 2 podcasts where Greg Smith, Rob Long and I discuss the psychosocial harm that results from safety practices (for instance investigations, audits, inspections). Sometimes, and often unknowingly, safety practices can do more harm than good when we try to address psychosocial risks in our organisations. This discussion takes a broader view of the psychosocial risks from a legal, organisational and compliance perspective. We hope that this discussion will trigger some questions and introspections in you and within your groups.
Do you think safety is about saving lives? In this podcast, Rob, Nippin and Pedro question the myth of ‘Safety saves lives’. What do we mean when we say we are in the business of ‘saving lives.’ Saving from whom, saved by whom and for whom? Where does this myth originate from? Whose purpose does it serve? What are the (unintended) implications of using this language when we are unaware of the underlying beliefs and myths? And finally, what could be the alternative ways to think about safety that can lead us to a pathway of humanising risk and relating with people?
We hope that this discussion will make you think and question your assumptions about safety and shift your focus towards meaningfully tackling risks in an uncertain world.
How often people get abused and victimised during safety inspections and audits?
I’ve heard so many stories of abuse and violence in the name of safety audits and inspections. In the maritime industry people are committing suicide and feeling anxious and depressed because of the very thought of an inspection or an audit. There are well-intentioned auditors and inspectors who would never intend to abuse anyone or misuse their power to achieve better results. Unfortunately, though, when we get so fixated on numbers, targets and dashboards, people become objects in the service of such tangible goals. How helpful are standards and concepts (psychosocial, human element, human factors, human performance etc.) without a serious discussion on ethics and power? Devoid of this discussion, numbers and targets become a mechanism to dehumanise the powerless. Here’s a discussion on ethics and power and how the issue of ethics is kept silent in the culture of risk and safety. We hope the discussion will make you think, reflect and question the current state of affairs in risk and safety.
More videos from previous experiences
In this video podcast, Nippin and Rosa discuss how to conduct a risk assessment using the iCue method. Rosa asks some great questions about the method and how to create a space for generative learning. Towards the end, Nippin even demonstrates how the iCue method is different from traditional risk assessments using forms and checklists.
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Rob Long
It’s the start of a new year and I thought it would be wonderful to start off on a positive note. The topic of this year’s first podcast is imagination.
What is imagination? Why do we need people to be more imaginative, more creative in the risk and safety industry? And do we really need people to be imaginative in a compliance driven industry with strict rules to follow? What about the (unintended) consequences of thinking ‘outside the box’ in a high risk environment?
These are some of the questions Dr Rob Long and I tackle in this conversation.
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Rosa Carrillo
It is often said that safety people require a predisposition of care and empathy towards others. Rosa Carrillo’s well-researched book ‘OHS Voices from The Resistance’ brings a paradox to surface. What if care and empathy make (safety) people vulnerable and fragile in the face of growing aggression and brutalism in the workplaces? The book is packed with stories of people working in the safety function struggle to maintain their identity and become seen as misfits in their organisations. While some find themselves out grouped from within their own organisations, others consider abandoning the safety industry as a whole. Rosa’s conversation with Nippin is deeply personal and reflective of her own struggles and ethnicity. For those interested, Rosa’s offers her wisdom on how to tackle and live with some of these issues: https://carrilloconsultants.com/product/voices-from-the-resistance/
Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira follow up on their conversation in Croatia
This is a conversation about what it takes to bring cultural sensitivity into organisations. Nippin and Pedro discuss several examples of how fostering conversations that are not power dominated and where personal agendas are not so much at play, can bring about a much better understanding of different perspectives. The understanding and sharing of different perspectives then brings about a much enhanced decision-making.
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira
How do you understand culture, cultural sensitivity and risk intelligence? How can being culturally sensitive make us risk intelligent? Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira offer some thoughts. And guess where they are – in the cultural capital of Europe i.e. Rijeka, Croatia
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Steve Shorrock
This podcast is dedicated to people who put on a performance (a show) every day when they come to work. performance means many things, although in the risk and safety world we have become excessively focused on work and the narrative goes something like this that in order for the worker to perform well, she needs the right support from the company. Support in the form of the right processes, right tools, right instructions, right directions and the right rules. And once you do that, not only safety but reliability, quality and efficiency will also improve. Since it is all about performance, the focus still remains on measurements and dashboards, AI and technique. But there is another kind of performance, the kind of performance that we notice with people who are going through so much in their lives (family issues, marital problems, trauma, identity crisis, discrimination, victimisation, bullying, harassment, sexual abuse and so on) and yet they are expected to put on a show when they turn to work. that’s performance, just like Freddie Mercury making sure the show must go on. Do we care to understand performance from this perspective? Is it even important given that this has ‘nothing’ to do with work? Steve Shorrock and I had a heartfelt conversation on this topic and we share our thoughts in this podcast. We hope this podcast will make you think, reflect and approach your colleagues and friends with a different perspective about performance.
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Rob Long
Our society has become so obsessed with measurement that even leisure, reading, wellbeing and healthy living have become a topic for efficiency. Many of us live and die without experiencing a life outside of efficiency and measurement. Take for instance the case of the father of scientific management Frederick Taylor. Even on his deathbed, Taylor was seen winding a stopwatch. What a paradox that we won’t let go of measurement even when there is no time left to live? But things are not that straightforward. How do we explain the countless time sitting on the couch browsing through social media without purpose or meaning? How do we explain investments in weapons of mass destruction? Clearly these are issues that cannot always be understood through the lenses of efficiency. In this podcast, Rob Long and I discuss the meaning of Technique as an ideology (or a worldview) that has come to dominate our lives. The ideology of Technique comes from the work of the French philosopher Jacques Ellul but was also discussed in the work of Heidegger and other philosophers. We hope this podcast will make you think, reflect and live a more fulfilling life.
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Greg Smith
Greg Smith and I recently did a podcast where I asked Greg about how far the industry has onboarded his wisdom about paper safety. The discussion ended in a very interesting place where we both felt the need to articulate a very basic question – what is safety?
It sounds like a simple question but there are so many dimensions to the idea of safety that we never come to a shared understanding and so I’m afraid we don’t have an answer but we do have some questions for you to reflect upon.
I hope you will enjoy listening and watching this podcast as much as Greg and I enjoyed creating it for you.
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Rob Long
The world is a semiosphere meaning the visual world around us have a symbolic and mythical meaning. In Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR), we often say that when it comes to making meaning of the outside world, ‘everything is significant’ or ‘nothing never happens.’ To a semiotically sensitive person i.e., to someone who becomes aware of the limits of their senses, there is so much wisdom in coming to terms with our ignorance. Being semiotically aware makes us culturally sensitive and risk intelligent.
I hope you will enjoy listening and watching this podcast as much as Dr Rob Long and I enjoyed creating it for you.
A conversation with Nippin Anand and Greg Smith
Measurement has come to dominate every aspect of human life. In the risk and safety world, we have been exclusively and excessively wedded to methods that can demonstrate tangible ways (i.e. through documented procedures and KPIs) of proving risk and safety. But the limitations of these methods are increasingly gaining traction in our industry and some of us are even asking bold questions such as what exactly are we doing in the name of risk and safety?
Greg Smith in his book “Paper Safe” has brilliantly unpacked this issue and the assumptions behind this thinking in a pragmatic sense. Greg and I met in his hometown, in fact at his home in Perth, Australia for a heartfelt conversation on this topic. My question in this podcast to Greg is this – ‘to what extent the industry has embraced his wisdom about the illusion of paper safety?’
A conversation with Rob Long and Nippin Anand
I have often been asked the question ‘what is SPoR?’ During a recent travel to Canberra Rob Long and I sat down to discuss SPoR and what it means. We took this video after four days of intensive discussions shortly before I left Canberra.
I hope this video will provide a starting point for the philosophy, ethic and predisposition of Social Psychology of Risk and what is unique (not better or superior) about the SPoR worldview.
My biggest takeaway from this conversation with Rob was that central to all learning and listening is being honest about our our ethics and how we relate with people and the world around us. Tools, templates and methods are secondary when it comes to listening, understanding human decision making and learning from the others.
Rob Long, Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira discuss the perspective of culture
Rob Long, Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira discuss about what it means to be an educated person
Continuing their car casts on the roads in Chennai (India), Dr Rob Long, Dr Pedro Ferreira and Dr Nippin Anand ask a basic question – what does it means to be an educated person? What is a human person? What is personhood and why personhood matters when it comes to understanding culture?
Rob Long, Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira discuss about what learning is
Dr Rob Long, Dr Nippin Anand and Dr Pedro Ferreira are on a car journey on the roads in Chennai, India exploring the topic of learning. So not the usual podcast but a carcast! The discussion begins with a brief introduction to what learning is not. Drawing up examples of driving and the road journey in India we then discuss how human beings learn. We discuss what is embodiment and why embodied learning matters for learning to become effective and sustainable in an organisation.
Rob Long and Nippin Anand on the hidden aspects of safety culture
Dr Nippin Anand and Dr Rob Long explore the meaning of ‘safety culture’. We explore the symbolism, rituals and myths of safety and question the ‘silences’ (i.e., what is not spoken) in the discourse of safety. We discuss religion and taboos and why focusing on taboos is essential to understanding safety culture.
Rob Long and Nippin Anand on why transdisciplinary thinking being essential for learning
The risk and safety industry typically approaches human being as a rational being and decision making as a rational, calculative, brain-centric exercise. In this podcast, Dr Rob Long and Dr Nippin Anand discuss the need for transdisciplinary thinking to understand how we as human beings make decisions with the view to improve decision making.
Rob Long and Pedro Ferreira on the trust needed to stop a job
In this podcast, Dr Rob Long and Dr Pedro Ferreira discuss the idea of ‘stop the job’. ‘Stop the job’ is a tool to empower people to stop an operation when they feel it is not safe to continue any longer. How does the idea of empowering someone to trust their intuition work in practice?
Rob Long and Pedro Ferreira on faith and learning
Have you ever wondered what is faith in true sense? Why do we hesitate so much to use the word faith? In this podcast Dr Rob Long and Dr Pedro Ferreira explore what is faith and why faith is essential to learning and living.
Rob Long and Nippin Anand on culture and learning
A podcast on understanding culture, safety culture and how we as human beings learn. Dr Rob Long and I explore why doubt is essential to learning? Have you ever paid close attention to how we speak? What is the language of risk and safety? In this podcast, we discuss why the language of doubt and uncertainty is essential to learning.
How can we ask open ended questions? How do we make people think and reflect about their assumptions and biases? How can we apply this framework to our current practices in risk management without having to redesign the entire system? In the video below, we will focus on applying the iCue method to risk assessments and tool box discussions to generate engagement and learning. For more information please reach out to us at support@novellus.solutions.
This is a short video to demonstrate how the iCue method works in practice using the practical example of a risk assessment. iCue method is based on Social Psychology of Risk. For more information please reach out to us at support@novellus.solutions.
This is a short video to demonstrate how the iCue method works in practice using the practical example of an incident investigation. iCue method is based on Social Psychology of Risk. For more information please reach out to us at support@novellus.solutions
Here is an iCue exercise the Novellus team did and enjoyed.
Nippin Anand , Pedro Ferreira, Lincy Mathew
Here is a conversation with Rob Long where we briefly discuss pitching, framing, priming, mirroring and anchoring. The knowledge of these tools is vital to enriching the quality of our conversations and building trust with others.
In this video Rob Long, Nippin Anand and Pedro Ferreira discuss the Mandala Symbolism based on the work of pioneering thinkers including Carl Gustav Jung. Mandala is one of the earliest symbols of human civilisation and can be found in one form or the other in almost every culture. At a time when humankind is experiencing upheaval and imbalance in every aspect of life, the Mandala symbol helps us to maintain peace and harmony with nature. Listen to the wisdom of Dr Rob Long who discusses how the Mandala symbolism and thinking can be practically applied to the world of risk management.
In this podcast, Craig and I draw from our personal lives and discuss why a transdisciplinary approach is essential to understanding and tackling risk. Amongst other things, we discuss the idea of collective coherence, the myth of normal and yes – the power of dreams that is so overlooked in our contemporary lives. Without dreams, there is no imagination and creativity.
This podcast is a discussion about inner resilience, positive psychology, cognitive dissonance and learning. For anyone interested to understand the deeper and person-centred meaning of resilience you may find the concepts discussed in this podcast helpful.
Speakers: Nippin Anand, Rob Long
This is the fifth of six sessions on learning explore the relationship between just culture and learning with a panel of internationally renowned experts in safety and human factors. The purpose of this session is to explore the different perspective on just culture and learning and to understand those differences from a legal, operational, and research perspective.
Panellists: Nippin Anand, Kym Bancroft, Daniel Hummerdal, Jay Banerjee, Clive Lloyd
This is the fourth of six sessions on learning explore the relationship between just culture and learning with a panel of internationally renowned experts in safety and human factors. The purpose of this session is to explore the different perspective on just culture and learning and to understand those differences from a legal, operational, and research perspective.
Panellists: Nippin Anand, Steven Shorrock, Rosa Carrillo, Carsten Busch, Tanya Hewitt
This is the third of six sessions on learning explore the relationship between just culture and learning with a panel of internationally renowned experts in safety and human factors. The purpose of this session is to explore the different perspective on just culture and learning and to understand those differences from a legal, operational, and research perspective.
Panellists: Donna Cohen, Robert J de Boer, Nikolaos Chalaris and Nippin Anand
This is the second of six sessions on learning explore the relationship between just culture and learning with a panel of internationally renowned experts in safety and human factors. The purpose of this session is to explore the different perspective on just culture and learning and to understand those differences from a legal, operational, and research perspective.
Panellists: Neil Richardson, Diane-Chadwick Jones, Oessur Hilduberg, Nektarios Karanikas
This is the first of six sessions on learning explore the relationship between just culture and learning with a panel of internationally renowned experts in safety and human factors. The purpose of this session is to explore the different perspective on just culture and learning and to understand those differences from a legal, operational, and research perspective.
Panellists: Neil Richardson, Diane-Chadwick Jones, Oessur Hilduberg, Nektarios Karanikas, Robert J de Boer, Greg Smith, Steven Shorrock
Expertise has become increasingly advanced and increasingly essential in settings requiring skilled decision-making, particularly under time pressure and uncertainty. And yet expertise has come under greater and greater assault from a variety of communities. This session will review these attacks, explain their flaws, and describe tactics for countering the critics and for promoting expertise in organizational settings.
It is often said that if you know your subject well you should have no difficulty in making clear and concise arguments. The proof is in the pudding. My guest, Johan Bergström, in this week’s podcast is blessed with immense wisdom and the unique ability to communicate his thoughts on one of the most difficult topics in safety sciences with such clarity and depth (in about twenty minutes).