Shared Ritual in the Safety Congregation?
When something includes salvation there may be ritual.
That is the power of Zero. Comply with these procedures, habits, practices, myths or routine enactments and thou shalt be saved (https://safetyrisk.net/practice-repetition-habit-routine-ritual-and-decision-making-in-risk/ ).
Those that enact agreed safety rituals enter right into a mystical unconscious drive that offers assurance by way of image. So long as the symbols are in place and we full them as ritual, all is effectively and all is for certain.
A lot of the unthinking rituals of safety are embodied heuristics which were invested with salvic energy. This is the reason so many enactments made widespread apply in safety can’t be disposed of. If you wish to discover out simply how highly effective ritual is in your group simply counsel ditching the risk matrix and see what occurs. Counsel doing a risk evaluation or toolbox in a distinct technique and see simply how strongly individuals are anchored to the sacredness of an untouchable ritual.
A ritual makes an act symbolically true. The sensation of salvation is skilled in each efficiency. This is the reason individuals are so shocked when after signing a ritual SWMS that one thing goes fallacious. How might this be? This is the reason when that colored matrix seems in the nook of the paperwork and we undergo the mumbo jumbo of residual risk or nonsense language of ‘risk appetite’ individuals ‘feel’ assured. It’s all about the feeling of certainty created in the enactment of image and endorsement of fantasy.
Efficaciousness in ritual/image/fantasy is attributed. While there may be nothing essentially fallacious with ritual, it’s typically what’s attributed to it that’s the drawback. Once we attribute salvic energy to ritual enactments we’re on a trajectory to a crash with actuality. Nothing a lot blows the wind out of the sails of Safety’s attributed rituals than a Courtroom that blows aside the building of faux efficaciousness.
I’ve written about ritual earlier than:
What are some widespread safety rituals?
That is the naïve perception that should you ship one thing into ‘reset’ one thing will change, when it doesn’t. Resets in safety are about the branding of reset, not about precise change. So long as the salvic attraction is to the engineering worldview to avoid wasting, nothing will change.
- Incantation: ‘safety is a choice you make’, ‘all accidents are preventable’ (https://safetyrisk.net/why-safety-isnt-a-choice-you-make/ )
The repetition of mythic mantras is widespread in the safety cult however invokes no change. The repetition of mantras and myths like ‘zero harm’ don’t change something however Safety feels so good repeating such mantras.
Nothing blows the wind out of safety myths like a Courtroom that demonstrates the ineffectiveness of SWMS and paperwork (https://safetyrisk.net/paper-safe/ ). When the ritual is the manufacturing of extra paper as efficacious you could be certain nothing can change.
- Counting damage charges: (https://safetyrisk.net/injury-rates-and-the-danger-of-eating-sultanas/ )
There’s maybe no larger ritual in safety than recording and reporting TRIFR and LTIs when neither characterize safety. But, that is enacted every month underneath the delusion that if safety does it typically sufficient one thing will change.
The principle objective of formality is to embody perception in order that nothing will change. That is how all religions assemble political economic system. Any questioning of formality and even suggesting that safety enactments are rituals invokes political backlash and opposition. Rituals (that don’t work) are invested with extraordinary political energy in order that their myths and symbols are concreted in perception and immovability in their enactment. Re-enactment of shared ritual is how Safety identifies membership of the congregation.
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