6Thinking about Where Failure Will Happen

Questions about your Organization:

  • Where will the next event happen in your organization, and what do you think that event will be?

  • Are you surprised when events happen?

  • Are you ever really surprised at who has events at your facility?

Tool: One Card Big Answers

One morning, at either a normal safety meeting or some pre-job activity, give every worker on the team a 3”x5” card and a pencil. Ask them to take a second to write the answer to these two questions on the provided card:

  1. On this job site, what is the next accident we will have?

  2. Where will it happen?

Have them answer the questions quickly, and make sure that they don’t overthink the questions. You actually want their gut level and instinctual ...

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