[SystemSafety] A small taste of what we're up against

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2018-10-29 11:18 , Olwen Morgan wrote:
> 
> On 29/10/2018 07:38, Peter Bernard Ladkin wrote:
>> Something you will hear often from management specialists is that
>>
>> the most potent driver of safe <anything> is that assurance of safety is a board-level priority,
>> with a specific director whose responsibility it is.
> 
> ... When the engineers are plain ignorant, should we expect
> the management to be any better? 

If assurance of safety is a board-level priority, and the engineers are ignorant, then it is the
duty of the board to understand that and to make space and worktime available for the engineers to
learn what it is they need to know and do to assure safety.

(That is not "management BS", that is management.)

Conversely, if the engineers know what it takes to assure safety, but space and worktime are not
made available to them to pursue that task because it is not a board-level priority, then the
organisation is not assuring safety as it might.

PBL

Prof. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
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