A fatal inversion - organizations continue to reward the wrong behaviour

A Fatal Inversion - Organizations Continue to Reward the Wrong Behaviour  

When accidents are reported often much emphasis is put on blaming the individual. The pressures on the individual to accept the blame are considerable. Most obvious is the threat, real or imagined, to job retention. Secondly a small, but immediate, compensation pay-out from an insurance company is better than a possibly larger sum at some indefinite time in the future. In addition, if the worker is involved in impending litigation, no other company will employ such a trouble-maker. The company is also 

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How then can systems be changed so as to encourage higher levels of safety Thus far, we have used a traditional model of safety improvement because we have only examined past events in order to learn from them. Now we wish to argue that we need to become more proactive in our approach to safety improvement. We start this in the following section, which describes key differences between the traditional versus the behavioural approach to safety improvement. 

Moving from a Traditional Approach to a Behavioural Approach to Continuous Safety Improvement 

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