Originally posted on November 22, 2021 @ 5:16 PM
Deciphering Safety Code
Unfortunately, language in safety is rarely defined so in order to help decipher meaning, the following codes should to be applied:
- Lean means obese
- Learning means indoctrination
- Just culture means policing
- Human factors means systems
- Procedures means paperwork
- Regulation means paperwork
- Professional means amateur
- Participation means excision
- Motivation means policing
- Debate means telling
- Culture means behaviours
- Conference means marketing
- Due diligence means mechanics
- Risk means hazard
- Perception means looking
- Zero means bullying
- Choice means determinism
- Tolerance means intolerance
- Different means the same
- Safety means injury rates
- Behaviours means objects
- Communication means telling
- Observation means surveillance
- Teams means individualism
- Subjective means objective
- Ethics means morals
- Systems mean systems
Have we missed any? Please leave your suggestions in the comments below:
Dr Rob Long
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Seàn Walker says
Inspections means finding fault.
Richard Forster says
Safety management system means the head getting away from the tail
Ray Lane says
Consultation means patronising
Admin says
frank Garrett says
Mental health means a commodity
Rob Long says
Mental Health means organisational problem
Admin says
A job for the hierarchy of hazard control
Alastair Muir says
Simplify means add
Admin says
Yes!
Wynand says
Systems review also means “add”.
Rob Long says
Absolutely Wynand. Nearly every inquiry I have read results in more paperwork, its all they know how to do.
Admin says
Investigation means blame