Re:French executives convicted in the suicides of 35 of thei...
by Spooky23 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:28AM
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You don’t need to even go that far.
One place I did a little work for had some safety culture problems in the field services teams, especially with digging equipment. The culture was very focused on grilling the employees in why they screwed up. New management came in and basically made the foremen and managers do a bunch of postmortem reviews and made them generally uncomfortable by making them accountable. Incidents went down dramatically, eventually going to near-zero after about 3 years.
In a more white collar setting, imo these issues are about people who rule by fear, either because that is how they are managed, or because they lack the competence to work any other way.
One place I did a little work for had some safety culture problems in the field services teams, especially with digging equipment. The culture was very focused on grilling the employees in why they screwed up. New management came in and basically made the foremen and managers do a bunch of postmortem reviews and made them generally uncomfortable by making them accountable. Incidents went down dramatically, eventually going to near-zero after about 3 years.
In a more white collar setting, imo these issues are about people who rule by fear, either because that is how they are managed, or because they lack the competence to work any other way.