Orlando, FL — Safety I and Safety II have divergent viewpoints, however they are often united and aligned into “Safety Seriously.”
That was a key message throughout Tuesday’s Occupational Keynote at the 2024 NSC Safety Congress & Expo.
Corrie Pitzer, CEO and founding father of Safemap International and a longtime Safety II proponent, shared the Valencia Ballroom stage with Tim Page-Bottorff, senior security guide at SafeStart and a “big advocate” of Safety I.
Their presentation originated, partly, from assembly in Australia, the place they started to construct a bridge between Safety I and Safety II.
Pitzer and Page-Bottorff developed six key factors:
Safety throughout “critical work” is unconditional. In conditions the place an error can result in demise or disaster, organizations ought to “not accept anything less than perfection.” Said Pitzer, “Sometimes, blame fixes something.”
Humans are the strongest hyperlink in your security system. People have the skill to establish danger intuitively – on the fly generally – and handle it.
Behavior drives conduct. Give individuals mastery of their expertise, make them masters of understanding danger, allow them to share in the goal of the group and give them authority to make selections.
Focus on “dynamic discovery.” Safety I’s concentrate on issues going mistaken and Safety II’s concentrate on issues going proper are each previous tense. “The human is the most potent risk discoverer in your company,” Pitzer mentioned.
Learn from “far misses.” Said Pitzer: “We can’t afford to learn from accidents. We can’t afford to learn from near misses because it’s too late.” Instead, “think forward” in all the things you do.
Be prepared to answer danger. Safety lives in the current and the previous, however danger lives in the future, Pitzer mentioned. Organizations, security professionals and employees must be prepared to answer danger.
“Safety is an egg,” Page-Bottorff mentioned, utilizing the metaphor to elucidate how the two approaches may be mixed. “When you crack open the egg, you’ll have an egg yolk and an egg white. Inside you might have two different approaches. You might eat the egg white or the yolk.
“Everybody has their own way they like to eat their eggs. But overall, the egg is still an egg. We’re still trying to protect people from harm.”
