Replace Safety Theater with Protection by Design
Protection by Design challenges the assumptions, language, and practices that have allowed occupational safety to repeat the same failures for generations.
Organizations continue to respond to damage with more rules, more information, more observation, more enforcement, and more blame.
Yet the conditions that made the damage possible often remain unchanged. The employee becomes the focus because the employee is visible.
The design of the work system, the decisions made before the work began, the conditions under which the work was performed, and the organizationā€™s failure to verify capability receive far less attention.
