Safety Moment - Embracing Graceful Extensibility in Safety Programs

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One of the most important features the space program had in getting a spacecraft

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back to Earth was the ability to always take one more orbit around the world. I'm set.

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I'm set. I'm set.

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Hi everybody, I'm Todd Conklin and welcome to the Pre-Accident Investigation Safety Moment. it.

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This is a pretty cool one. Special thanks go out today to David Woods,

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Ohio State University. He really made me think about this one in a big way.

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Let's introduce the idea of graceful extensibility. Let's

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introduce the idea that you always have the capacity to expand your safety and

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reliability programs to meet the need of the variabilities that have existed

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within the work you're doing that have created the potential for an operational

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upset. That makes sense.

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Let's talk about the idea of hedging your bets, of measuring twice, cutting once.

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Let's talk about the idea of graceful extensibility.

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And the reason we ought to talk about this in a safety moment is because if you think about safety.

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Safety exists when people create the margins so that the bad thing can't have

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the consequence it would normally have. The bad thing appeared.

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There's no question that the bad thing was there. The bad thing just didn't

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create the outcome that would have negative implications to either people,

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processes, product, the value that the company adds.

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So when a load falls off a truck and doesn't hit anybody and lands in the exclusion

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area, then that load fell in a way. It fell. It sure fell.

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I mean, it absolutely fell, but it landed in a way that provided graceful extensibility,

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another orbit around the world.

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It allowed us the opportunity, the margin to have the failure without having the consequence.

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That graceful extensibility is exactly what we want to build into our systems.

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It's exactly what we want to build into our processes and our good processes have it in it.

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In fact, I'll bet you you've built graceful extensibility into your life.

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I'll bet you you have high-risk things you do, whatever risk looks like for

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you, that when you do those high-risk jobs, you've built in the opportunity

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to have some room, some margin for that failure to happen. Think rumble strips.

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Think where you put your keys at night. Think how you handle your cell phone.

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And then think of the words graceful extensibility.

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That's the podcast for today. That's a really good safety moment.

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I don't know what you guys thought, but that's my favorite one so far of all

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the ones we've done. And we've done a crap load.

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Until then, learn something new every single day.

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Have as much fun as you can possibly squeeze into your average work week.

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And for goodness sakes, be safe.

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