Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
Safety is the industry of lower order goals (see Figure 1. Goal States). Safety functions under the false slogan ‘you can’t manage what you can’t measure’. It chooses to ignore a much better aphorism and that is: ‘you can’t count what counts’.
We have … Learn more >>>>>
We learn recently that Victorian Police – a supposed institution of trust, has fabricated numbers over the past 5 years in order to meet targets. It is reported today that Victoria Police have fabricated 258,000 breath tests in order to meet targets. How is this … Learn more >>>>>
The language of perfection is non-sense for fallible people. Speaking infallibility to the fallible is a sure recipe for alienation and delusion. As language forms the bedrock of culture, language of infallibility sets up those speaking it for hypocrisy and those listening for scepticism … Learn more >>>>>
One of the things that Safety does best is speak meaningless language and create reverse goals. When one defines safety numerically and then makes up binary nonsense language to match, it makes for pretty stupid rhetoric. There is nothing more absurd than setting a … Learn more >>>>>
By Alan Quilley
I’ve been doing a great deal of thinking and writing about the variety of associated problems with using injury data to support the belief that low injury/damage results equate to a corporation being safe. The truth is that very safely … Learn more >>>>>
