Safety Moment - Redux: Unseen Triumphs in Safety: The Moral Imperative

WEBVTT 00:00:00.017 --> 00:00:06.657 I don't know how much you've thought about the long-term ramifications of what 00:00:06.657 --> 00:00:07.977 you're doing for a living. 00:00:08.177 --> 00:00:13.357 I mean, I really don't know how much you think about this because it's tough. 00:00:13.597 --> 00:00:16.957 It's really tough. It's hard to measure something that doesn't happen.

00:00:17.337 --> 00:00:22.717 We just know that. Every engine in the world, every single one of them should 00:00:22.717 --> 00:00:26.637 be comforted by knowing that you can't measure something that doesn't happen. 00:00:26.637 --> 00:00:33.817 And yet our job pretty much is a job that if we're doing the work we need to 00:00:33.817 --> 00:00:38.637 be doing and helping our workers be successful in a complex environment, 00:00:38.637 --> 00:00:46.157 then our reward for that is that nothing measurable will take place. We'll be right back.

00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:57.360 Music. 00:00:56.637 --> 00:00:59.957 Hey, everybody. Todd Conklin, pre-accident investigation safety moment. 00:01:00.417 --> 00:01:07.937 First of all, great thanks, muchas gracias, for my friends in Colombia.

00:01:08.217 --> 00:01:11.857 I had the best time on my little Colombian journey. 00:01:12.057 --> 00:01:15.377 Someday, when we have a lot of time, I'll tell you how it all ended up. 00:01:15.537 --> 00:01:20.237 I was in Colombia, but I was there, and I had a great time, and I met with some 00:01:20.237 --> 00:01:26.057 dear friends, and we talked about safety. We actually talked about safety specifically 00:01:26.057 --> 00:01:29.617 in Colombia, for sure, but really throughout Latin America.

00:01:29.897 --> 00:01:35.237 And one of the things that's coming up is it looks like there may be a Proyecto 00:01:35.237 --> 00:01:40.237 Eque for Latin America. That's all I'm going to say. I'm not going to say anything else. 00:01:40.497 --> 00:01:43.917 You'll have to go look that up if you don't know what I just said.

00:01:43.917 --> 00:01:46.277 You can look up those words. They're available. 00:01:46.517 --> 00:01:53.777 But it's exciting. But I think the big part of what I want to talk about today is the moral –.

00:01:55.006 --> 00:02:00.106 Duty. That's probably the best word I can think of for the job we have. 00:02:00.566 --> 00:02:05.566 And in fact, I want you to think about the fact that the work you're doing, 00:02:06.046 --> 00:02:11.766 even though it's frustrating and difficult and bureaucratically laden, 00:02:11.886 --> 00:02:14.366 and I don't know, you know, 00:02:14.606 --> 00:02:19.686 especially your work, but I'm relatively certain I can guess what it looks like 00:02:19.686 --> 00:02:21.286 because it probably looks just like mine. 00:02:21.286 --> 00:02:28.506 Even though there's lots of autocratic, bureaucratic crap, reports and attention 00:02:28.506 --> 00:02:30.566 to detail and regulators, 00:02:31.186 --> 00:02:36.146 ultimately, I want you to remember that what you do matters, 00:02:36.146 --> 00:02:38.786 even though it can't be measured.

00:02:39.266 --> 00:02:45.666 And so that moves us from kind of an engineering statistic to a moral duty. 00:02:45.666 --> 00:02:52.806 Now, don't take this too wrong because this can be kind of freaky to your leaders, 00:02:52.806 --> 00:02:56.086 but there's a moral imperative that we do what we do. 00:02:56.186 --> 00:03:00.046 There's a moral imperative that we listen carefully to what workers need to 00:03:00.046 --> 00:03:05.886 be successful in a rapidly changing world and then allow them the ability to succeed, 00:03:05.886 --> 00:03:13.046 allow them the ability to do the work they need to do in an incredibly complex environment. 00:03:13.706 --> 00:03:17.806 And you'll never be able to measure what didn't happen.

00:03:18.526 --> 00:03:23.846 And I guess maybe my advice to us, and I'm saying this just as much to me as 00:03:23.846 --> 00:03:26.786 I am to you, is that we got to be okay with that. 00:03:26.966 --> 00:03:33.586 But more importantly, we have to help educate our leadership that the results 00:03:33.586 --> 00:03:37.146 they're looking for are the results that they can't measure. 00:03:37.826 --> 00:03:41.266 It's what didn't happen that makes a difference. 00:03:41.946 --> 00:03:47.026 And that what didn't happen part, that's a huge part of what we want to talk about.

00:03:47.166 --> 00:03:50.726 When bad things happen, and they do, and they will, it's a complex world. 00:03:51.066 --> 00:03:55.146 Well, we'll do our best to understand and explain how that bad thing happened. 00:03:55.546 --> 00:03:59.666 But mostly our goal is to not avoid repeat occurrences. 00:04:00.226 --> 00:04:05.786 Our goal is to ensure that normal work happens normally.

And that is a world 00:04:05.786 --> 00:04:07.766 that we want to be a huge part of. 00:04:08.626 --> 00:04:12.766 That is, my friends, the safety moment for today. It was a simple one, 00:04:12.846 --> 00:04:15.366 but it's kind of a good one for us. I mean, it's one we can all learn from.

00:04:15.766 --> 00:04:18.746 Learn something new every single day. Have as much fun as you possibly can. 00:04:19.006 --> 00:04:22.906 Take care of each other. Be kind.

And for goodness sakes, be safe. 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:35.077 Music.