How many times have we found that organisations claiming to have long and distinguished “zero accident” records are simply kidding themselves? They may even believe their own all-important statistics, but the fact is, all they are doing is pushing reality underground and bringing on the next disaster by a culture of fear and blame.
Why are boards of directors and senior executives so purile as to think that their obsession with negative indicators like Lost Time Injuries has any connection with reality? Perhaps they actually know this, but the only thing they really care about is what looks good in reports and on fancy charts. No, I’ll amend that statement. It IS the only thing they care about.
It turns out (surprise, surprise), that workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig,
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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