Leading And Learning Through Safety

In this week’s "Leading and Learning Through Safety" podcast, Dr. Mark French emphasizes the importance of capturing and understanding data to support risk reduction procedures, stating that good safety practices are indicative of good leadership. He highlights the need for organizations to learn from past incidents to prevent future occurrences.Dr. French references a recent Chemical Safety Board (CSB) report on a 2022 refinery explosion that resulted in fatalities. The report revealed that the organization failed to learn from previous mistakes, did not capture the reasons behind incidents, and lacked systemic changes to prevent recurrence. This failure to learn poses significant risks.To illustrate the importance of documentation, Dr. French provides a hypothetical example where an organization, after an injury, revises policies and implements protections. However, new management might later remove these measures, reintroducing risk due to a lack of understanding of their importance. Thus, docume