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The Petri Dish Effect: Shifting Our Focus From Root Causes to Root Conditions

Our industry’s persistent serious injury and fatality (SIF) statistics indicate that we are aiming at the wrong target, despite our best intentions. A small shift in our industry’s approach to incident investigations, however, could lead to meaningful change. Decades of professional experience have taught me that when we search for an event’s root cause, we […]

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Overcoming Safety’s Blind Spot

“If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.” -Sir Ken Robinson Innately curious and hardwired to seek order, humans often grasp onto the latest ideas and inventions that help us satisfy our need to understand the world around us. Don’t believe me? Consider geocentricism, or the now-obsolete belief that […]