Safety Moment - Even Good Systems Have Limits

Published: July 13, 2016, 6 p.m.

Safety Podcast, Safety Program, Investigations, Human Performance, Safety Differently, Operational Excellence


The best systems in the world have limits.  The best systems in the world fail.  You cannot or will not ever make a system that will be perfect.  Stop thinking like that.  It makes you look dumb when something bad happens in your organization.

What you manage are the limits of the system.  What you manage are the margins.  What you manage is the systems ability to fail and not explode...

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