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We are in the business of change.\\xa0 But we aren\'t always great at it.\\xa0 This is a podcast about babies and blindness, carrots and elephants, and the necessary tension between where we want to go, and where we are right now.\\xa0

I don\'t think we will ever be able to rest on our laurels, even if we become the most influential and effective safety professionals in history.\\xa0 Even if all the hazards are identified, all the controls are known and in place, I think two things will always be true.\\xa0 The first truth is that the only thing that stays the same is change - change in operations, change in people, change in resourcing, change in the work environment or industry context.\\xa0 The second truth, or maybe I should say what I believe to be true, comes from the High Reliability Organising research.\\xa0 Even when everything seems great, our ongoing job is to create and maintain a sense of unease about things, which keeps us tuned into and anticipating change and what needs to change.\\xa0

I gave up the clever but trite phrase \'my job is to make myself redundant\' many years ago for this reason. I will make the argument that not only is the job never finished, that we need to earn our place in our organisation using this very logic.\\xa0

And until that time, it can feel really, really frustrating.\\xa0