Was reading Stephen Covey’s “The Leader in Me: How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child At a Time”, and he was describing how a school succeeded in implementing a significant change in its culture, systems and processes. The school started with pilot groups to demonstrate how the new approach is effective and useful. With the initial successes the rest of the school became more willing to change…

Straits Times reported that the Singapore Flyer (a larger version of the London Eye) which stopped about 3 weeks ago, had similar incidents before. The previous incidents were relatively minor as compared to the Dec 23 08 incident, where 173 passengers were stuck in the wheel for more than 6 hours.

NASA just released a report titled, “Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report”. The final report is focused on the technical issues involved in the Columbia space shuttle accident in 2003. The report can be downloaded from http://www.nasa.gov/news/reports/index.html.

Recently attended a workshop by Optimus Safety Management which focused on the importance of a caring culture and ensuring that safety is not de-humanised. It is so easy to see safety as just another form or just a number, it frequently takes a third party to help us refocus on why safety is important.

I've attended a similar workshop by JMJ Associates a few years back and they have a similar message of not degenerating safety into numbers and treating each injured as a case. However, it is amazing how easily these important messages get lost when work pressure mounts and caring for another person becomes a luxury...