Pre-Accident Investigations

2Why Think about Failure at All,Let Alone Think “Differently”about Failure?

Questions about Your Organization:

• Is your organization as safe as it should be?

• How does your organization measure safety success?

• Is the production of product more valued than protection of people, really?

• Look around and see what is valued with money, time, and recognition—what is most relevant to your management team?

• Are your processes written to make work happen successfully, or to avoid compliance failure?

• Do you learn as an organization from your successes as much as, or more than, from your failures?

Here’s what we have learned about safety…not everything, but some crucial things that seem to make a difference at work. If you will allow me the pleasure, I ...