JMJ Founder and Partner Mike Goddu will explore some of the strengths and weaknesses of the current approaches to safety, and a way forward based on new ways of thinking about safety in “Elevating the Role of People in Creating Safety Performance.
Scholars and experts have said for decades that virtually all incidents are not caused by errors and human behavior, yet most managers still believe it and most organizations still operate that way. Investigations proceed that way. Even enlightened investigations invite managers to go beyond worker behavior as the cause and look for other ’causes’ such as supervisor accountability.
What if people in your organization became the engine of learning for your company, not the engine of productivity? What if the extraordinary leadership historically focused on driving the goals of production were now turned to transformational leadership beginning with safety?