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Safety First
- amluto 2y ago> Unquestioned. Nobody is permitted to ask the engineer “why did you extend the deadline?” after-the-fact. This sounds like dogma first, safety second. Suppose an engineer at Moeing (a hypothetical aerospace company with a strong engineering and safety culture) said “we’re going to delay the first shipment of these airplanes,” then they shipment should be delayed and the design reviewed. But this review should absolutely include understanding why the engineer wants to delay shipments! And an attempt to understand how to improve the airplane and how to improve the process to reduce the chance of this happening again.
- readthenotes1 2y agoIs it really a deadline if it can be ignored at whim?
- readthenotes1 2y agoSafety third. https://youtu.be/Km8XxRCuCho?feature=shared https://youtu.be/Km8XxRCuCho?feature=shared And from another of his articles: "Safety is never really first. No company, no nation, and no individual exist for the primary purpose of being safe. Sensible people understand that risk is a part of life, and that no amount of compliance will ever eliminate the inherent dangers that come from being alive." https://mikerowe.com/2020/10/off-the-wall-safety-third/ https://mikerowe.com/2020/10/off-the-wall-safety-third/
- rurban 2y agoWrong. All space companies/orgs put safety first. Because you cannot fix it, and any error is dramatic. Even worse than medical
- IshKebab 2y agoNo they don't. If they really put safety first they'd say "flying to space is super dangerous no matter what we do, so we're not going to". Clearly they put getting to space first. Safety is second at best.
- Maxatar 2y agoThe idea that a safety issue should go unquestioned is baffling to me. If an engineer has reason to delay a project over a safety issue, then that issue must absolutely be questioned so that it can be properly understood and other engineers and people in general working on the team can have an understanding of what the issue is.