The idea made in security is that tradition could be defined conceptually and propositionally, when it may possibly’t. No surprise those that describe tradition as a ‘fog’ or ‘cloudy’ don’t perceive tradition. It’s a bit like taking a knife to a gun struggle, or asking the flawed questions anticipating the best reply.
However when your paradigm doesn’t match, Security doesn’t search a view outdoors of its self, it simply deems tradition ‘too onerous’, so one of the best factor is simply don’t speak about it (Busch, Hopkins). The opposite view in security is that there is no such thing as a such factor as ‘security tradition’ and this additionally permits an analogous ‘head-in-sand’ strategy to realizing.
How unusual, there is no such thing as a ‘confusion’, ‘cloud’ or ‘fog’ about tradition in Indigenous societies.
The fact is, you’ll be able to’t perceive tradition by utilizing a reductionist paradigm. Engineering, Behaviourist and Positivist paradigms don’t have the muse to assist an ‘understanding’ of tradition.
Tradition is a Depraved Downside and so calls for a Transdisciplinary strategy for understanding.
Because of this the strategies Security applies to attempting to know tradition, gained’t assist understanding. Notably, if the paradigm used is sourced in Engineering, Rationalism, Positivism and Behaviourism. These ‘darling’ paradigms of the security business, that all the time supply itself when it desires to know something (eg. Hopkins, Cooper, Busch), merely turns into a self-validating cycle. Simply have a look at most texts about security and tradition, and so they all the time reference the outdated security classics: Dekker, Heinrich, Motive, Schein and many others. (Hopkins, Cooper) (https://safetyrisk.internet/culture-is-cloudy-in-safety-and-thats-a-good-thing/). The security ‘echo chamber’ is alive and thriving in security.
When your anchor is security, there shall be nothing new to study tradition certainly, even how understanding is outlined by the security paradigm solely drives higher self-confusion. When your paradigm solely validates a technique of realizing, different methods of realizing are simply dismissed and demonised.
Regardless of all of the claims made within the textual content Security Cultures, Security Fashions about innovation, creativity and ‘wealthy debates’, there may be nothing new. Simply extra security regurgitation to maintain the compliance business comfy and safe in its personal cultural cocoon. That is what the security paradigm generates, even who’s requested to jot down or analysis on the notion merely permits the cyclic consolation of mono-disciplinarity.
It’s the age-old proverb: while you outline the issue as a nail, the one resolution is a hammer. And, with regards to tradition, Security is about as helpful as a field filled with hammers.
So, how would your paradigm was restricted in case you commenced your profession as a chemical engineer after which moved into security? That is the character of mono-disciplinarity. Even when Security later seeks to debate points outdoors of itself, it nonetheless frames its pondering by the outdated paradigm and doesn’t realize it. And it’s too onerous in Security to let go of the outdated paradigm (primarily based on obligatory mis-education), such is the stress of cognitive dissonance. Most don’t even know they’re locked into such a cycle.
The very last thing Security desires to ponder is the concept that there could be a paradigm outdoors of itself which may suppose in a different way about realizing and understanding. You possibly can’t know what you’ll be able to’t know.
When one understands tradition as a depraved downside one instantly steps out of the consolation and compliance zone to a Transdisciplinary strategy.
In an business framed by hazards, controls, compliance, regulation, policing, concern and mono-disciplinarity, it’s a giant problem to speak in confidence to creativity, innovation, creativeness and prospects outdoors of security. When one is in a cocoon, it’s onerous to think about {that a} totally different understanding primarily based in Poetics or Semiotics might allow a distinct means of realizing. A means of realizing that understands tradition experientially, symbolically and existentially.
One would suppose that if one thing like tradition appeared ‘messy’, ‘cloudy’ or ‘foggy’ one would possibly query one’s personal paradigm somewhat than advocate Rule 1: Don’t speak about tradition. Rule 2. Don’t speak about tradition (Busch The First Rule of Security Tradition p. 178, 179).
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Free Module in Tradition and Security
So, for many who are in a position and keen to droop their very own assumptions and framing in realizing, there are methods of understanding tradition that may be discovered, outdoors of the security paradigm. First, an important deal must be unlearned (stepping away from engineering and behaviourism) and letting go of the security paradigm, to be able to transfer ahead to a distinct means of realizing.
The primary rule of tradition is to be sure you speak about tradition; the second rule of tradition is to speak about it outdoors of the security paradigm.
If this module is of curiosity and you might be in search of an understanding of tradition and the tradition of security, Dr Lengthy shall be conducting a free Module on Tradition and security in 2023. It’s simple to register for this free program, by simply ship an electronic mail to robertlong2@mac.com and you’ll be put within the checklist.
The module will run Zoom periods each Tuesday at 9am (Canberra time) beginning on 21 February 2023 and with 90-minute periods at 9 am and every following Tuesday at 9 am for five weeks. Because of this the final session shall be on 21 March 2023.
Do NOT register for this program just because it’s free. Register in case you suppose you might be able to let go and be taught.
These can begin by studying Dr Lengthy’s blogs on tradition and tradition silences:
· https://safetyrisk.internet/class/safety-culture-3/
· https://safetyrisk.internet/class/safety-culture-silences/
Equally, it is going to be useful to learn a few of Lotman:
· The Unpredictable Workings of Tradition
· Universe of the Thoughts, A Semiotic Concept of Tradition
Or Bachelard:
· https://websites.evergreen.edu/wp-content/uploads/websites/88/2015/05/Gaston-Bachelard-the-Poetics-of-Area.pdf
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