Safety is not the absence of harm…

We can all start by looking at what we measure in ‘Safety’. Are the indicators we use predominantly measures of the absence of harm, e.g. number of incidents/days since last LTIs etc. or are they the presence of what we want, e.g. trust, openness, collaboration, communication…? These may appear to us to be harder to measure, but is that response just part of us slipping back to the current paradigm? We know an organisation that (amongst many other things) looks at the divorce rate amongst all its members. Why, well a big part of break downs in relationships are caused by people not speaking to each other. When you’re doing work that matters, feeling safe and contributing to others, when you go home you talk about it!

Let’s cause a revolution in the world of safety, let’s notice where things go well, learn from them, reinforce them and create the sort of organisations where people thrive.

If you are interested in creating this world, a world where safety is not defined by the absence of anything, but is defined by people thriving, doing their lives’ work and choosing to lead themselves and those around them, please join us.