I keep using this tragedy as a teaching/learning tool. This officer was convicted and sentenced to 4-years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter for holding back the crowd during George Floyd’s murder.
TAKE THE POLITICS OUT OF IT and ask….
Why didn’t he step in and do something?
This is the difference between “latent organizational failures” and “active failures.”
For example, suppose a person believes in this conviction and sentence. In that case, the next time a worker commits an unsafe act that results in them being disciplined, those workers around them will also receive some level of discipline for failure to step in and intervene in some way.
Or maybe we should ask ourselves WHY didn’t those around them intervene when they saw it or were even party to the unsafe act?
There is more to this unsafe act than just the worker committing it!!! Have we endorsed this act by lack of intervention or supervisors turning a blind eye to the act so we can “get r done”?
