Risk Makes Sense: Human Judgement and Risk

In a world of growing risk aversion, one could be forgiven for thinking that risk doesn't make sense. Risk elimination thinking and behaviour sets a trajectory for a `dumb down' workplace culture. The more efforts are made to `engineer out the idiot', the more the system creates an unthinking workforce.

A Newsletter in 2011 by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the UK lists a number of things that have been banned. Dodgem cars, school sack races and kite flying, amongst the activities ...