Interestingly, this lesson having been learned in war, it lay hibernating to be discovered in engineering decades later. While most modern safety advice recomm

Interestingly, this lesson having been learned in war, it lay hibernating to be discovered in engineering decades later. While most modern safety advice recommends empowering line workers to report safety failures, this also extends to engineering quality. The quintessential example of devolving power down to individuals is Andon[0], the most recognisable feature of which is a little cord any line worker in the factory can pull to stop the entire line. 0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andon_(manufacturing)