Playing on what Hippocrates said centuries ago, I’ll offer this advice to safety pros who are exploring their next gig…
Before you can heal [an organization], ask [them] if [they’re] willing to give up the things that make [them] sick.
Hippocrates, 450 B.C.
Before a safety pro can help an organization, that organization, and its leadership have to recognize its addiction to injury rates and be willing to embrace managing safety in a dynamically new way. Relying SOLELY on lagging indicators is a real organizational sickness that leads to many latent organizational failures in many accidents.
