Humanising Safety
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BALPA Flight Safety
With our series of BALPA Safety Conferences, we have been implicitly highlighting the importance of engaging the humans in our safety-critical systems, not as parts of a machine to be controlled, but as the humans that they are.
We looked at why the science of complex adaptive systems shows us the importance of understanding and learning in a human-centric way, to why we must have psychological safety to learn and grow.
We highlighted the dangers of fatigue and the need to protect our pilots from its effects and had discussions around the new views of safety and learnt how some airlines gained great value from the application of humble enquiry.
This safety conference now moves us into more explicit anthropocentric territory covering the ethical implications of our control of safety and risk, the benefits of bottom-up organisational structures, and learning in different ways to best handle a complex world full of irremovable uncertainty.
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Conference Overview
Free to Register Zoom Conference
Date - 27th January 2022
Time - 09:00 - 13:30 GMT (London)
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Dr Robert Long -
The Ethics of Safety and Risk
Presentation Link - Ethics of Risk
Video Link - HERE
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Dr Donna Cohen -
Back to Front and Upside Down - Is top-down command and control working for anyone?
Presentation Link - Back-to-Front and Upside-Down
Video Link - HERE
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Dr Nippin Anand -
Can we ever learn from accidents? The Costa Concordia story.
Video Link - HERE
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Moving Forward Together
The BALPA Flight Safety team both hope and expect that this conference will deeply challenge our audience. Listening to these speakers has greatly influenced our thoughts, and we will be interested to see your reaction.
Our aim with this conference is to make the audience seriously consider the risk and safety management approach that they are advocating. This is not because we favour one approach as right or wrong, but because we think it may be time to re-examine the very foundations of how we understand the nature of our workplaces and so, how we ethically and practically handle safety and risk within them.
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Dr Robert Long
PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min.,
Founding Director, Social Psychology of Risk
Dr Long is an accomplished author, presenter and educator. He has published eleven highly successful books on the Social Psychology of Risk (SPoR) and publishes extensively on the Internet.
Rob’s 47 years in the workforce includes leadership and management in: building and construction, light industry, transport and logistics, corrections, education and training, not for profit organisations, social welfare, public service, risk, safety and business.
Human Dymensions was founded in 2002 and since then has trained over 20,000 participants across 30 countries.
Dr Long’s methodology and programs are delivered Globally with International Head Offices in Linz Austria and Calgary Canada.
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Dr Donna Cohen
Bachelor of Science (Hons) (University of Sydney, 1983)
Doctor of Philosophy (Australian National University, 1987)
Master of Public Policy and Management (Monash University, 2004)
Donna is a researcher, analyst, strategic thinker and expert facilitator, with a passion for strategic planning, process implementation, evaluation and quality improvement.
Donna began her career as an academic and researcher in the biomedical sciences. Over a 15-year period working in the United States and Australia, she studied gene expression and the genetic basis of cancer. She left research in 1998, initially to develop and deliver science-based theatre presentations to schools and the general public. This was followed by two years in the Victorian Department of Human Services in public policy concerned with biotechnology and ethics, during which time she completed a Masters in Public Policy and Management.
In 2004, Donna returned to academia as Director of the newly established Strategic Projects Development Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University. She was responsible for establishing new courses in a range of disciplines and for development of cross-faculty research initiatives in ageing, global public health, obesity and criminal justice.
Since establishing her own consulting business in 2008, Donna has built on her diverse project experience and has been a significant contributor to initiatives aimed at improving and expanding the clinical education and training capacity of Victorian health services. With a focus on the health and higher education sectors, she has assisted government, peak bodies, specialist colleges, research institutes, training providers, universities and health services with strategic planning, evaluation and quality improvement.
Donna is now a Director of the Melbourne-based company MEERQAT Pty Ltd. The company designs and develops online tools that assist organisations to meaningfully engage their workforce in process review activities in the context of evaluation and quality improvement.
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Dr Nippin Anand
Nippin is a Principal Specialist in management systems and human factors. With more than two decades of exposure within the maritime, oil and gas sector he has accumulated a career capital that spans across hands on operations, academic research, consultancy and certification and regulation in the maritime, oil and gas sector. He regularly deliver keynotes, motivational speeches and workshops to thought leaders and forward thinking organisations across the world on the topics of learning from accidents, organisational learning and safety management.