Trinket Safety There’s nothing quite like the safety market when selling snake oil. Amazing to see engineers selling neuroscience and behaviourists selling eugenics. Remarkable how easy it is to sell the silver bullet to an undiscerning audience. The marketing of so called perfect solutions to the … [Read more...] about Trinket Safety
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Risk Psychometrics, Spin and Snake Oil
Risk Psychometrics, Spin and Snake Oil Latest article by Dr Robert Long from www.humandymensions.com.au. A great quote from the article: So, let us name safety psychometrics for what it is. Safety psychometrics is workforce eugenics as if humans are not human, as if the absolute of zero is … [Read more...] about Risk Psychometrics, Spin and Snake Oil
Snake Oil Going Cheap Again in Safety
Snake Oil Going Cheap Again in Safety I saw a promotion today by one of the associations marketing the ‘quantitative measurement of safety mindfulness’. Are people that dumb that they buy this stuff? Surely not. This is one quote from the promotion ‘… x considers a quantitative approach to the … [Read more...] about Snake Oil Going Cheap Again in Safety