Safety Moment - Get Caught Trying to Make It Better

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This can get hard. It can get really hard. I had someone write a pretty horrible

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thing on LinkedIn about safety differently and myself and Decker and the whole gang. It can get hard.

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But when it gets hard, that's when we prove who we are. We'll be right back.

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Hi, everybody. Todd Conklin, Free Accident Investigation Safety Moment.

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I'm not in a bad mood. Don't get me wrong.

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Just trust me. You can write whatever you want to about me on LinkedIn because,

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first of all, I don't give a crap.

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And secondly, nobody reads LinkedIn. So I'm fine. So I'm not in a bad mood.

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But I want to sort of share with you something that my boss told me a long time ago.

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And I actually think this is a really good piece of advice. It's something I've

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remembered, and it's a really good safety moment.

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And my boss told me all the time when things got hard or complicated or complex

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or political or burdensome or irksome, that's a good word, irksome task and

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weighty responsibilities, a little code word right there.

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When things got tough my boss would look me in the face and say get caught trying to make it better.

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Get caught trying to make it better and i think about that all the time and

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and and when he told me that years ago it was probably a little bit wasted on

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me because i probably was completely freaked out and thought what did he know

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he's an old man hardly any you know i'm young and smart and genius.

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But now I realize as I grow older, because I am almost 30 now,

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that getting caught trying to make it better is exactly the way you want to get caught.

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If things go to crap, if it all goes down, if you're in 60 minutes or if they

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write an anonymous letter about you in the Washington Post,

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the best thing you want it to say, and maybe the worst thing it could say,

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is that they caught you trying to make it better.

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And that's my challenge to you, although that's kind of preaching to the choir,

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but it's really my challenge to your leadership.

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When they get frustrated and upset and concerned, instead of making it worse,

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harder, more difficult, more painful, what you ought to do is get caught trying to make it better.

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Get caught trying to make it better. It's kind of beautiful, isn't it? I think so.

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That's the safety moment for today. Have as much fun as you possibly can.

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Learn something new every single day. And for goodness sakes, be safe.

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