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Something that helps a lot: have a safety incident team with absolutely no connection to HR. They have no ability to fire anyone or report on your performance
by AnarchismIsCool 3y ago
Something that helps a lot: have a safety incident team with absolutely no connection to HR. They have no ability to fire anyone or report on your performance review, they don't talk to managers about people and just record and compile safety related issues. Yeah, you may have an employee or two who screams wolf a lot, but their job is just to investigate, fix the specific issue, anonymize, and aggregate the reports. This lack of connection should be very public so everyone feels comfortable talking to them.
This is part of how the FAA vastly reduced the fatality rate in GA. They stopped playing cop and started playing engineer.
- kmonad 3y agoI like the idea, but I am pessimistic. The more experienced I get (aka getting older), the more I see administrative bloating as the cancer of institutions---a somewhat equally inescapable fate. Installing a safety reporting administration may do what it set out to do, initially. But at some point, promotions may be handed out to those with most reports, perhaps perverting the initial intent. In another thread I read that the EASA and FAA used to send Airbus/EASA engineers to Boeing (and maybe vice versa) who could raise all sorts of hell if mistakes were found. Such a setup seems perhaps harder to "game". I do not know this for a fact, I recall it from reading another debate, so take it as hearsay.
- euroderf 3y agoThese sound like variations on "tiger teams". And they sound appropriate.