Risk Managers and other safety professionals have to pick up the pieces after a terrible disaster and try and move on. Moving on can mean addressing the immediate issue that occurred or stepping back and taking a bigger picture look at systemic cultural issues that have made yet one more incident occur. In this episode I describe my experiences about what works with changing the fuels and combustion systems equipment culture within large organizations to fix long time systemic erosion of respect for equipment, lack of procedures and documentation, and gap analysis issues that invite more tragedies. The problem is that sometimes organizations change and things happen like talent and expertise retire before systems can be put into place to replace the corporate knowledge that left. In other cases manufacturing processes have now become core competencies that did not used to be central to the organization. When this happens and systems aren't in place to support fuels and combustion equipment operations it invites tragedy. Remember, if you're looking for trouble, you're credits always good. Applying the measures identified in my book related to PPE, (People, Policies, and Equipment), can make for systemic change that successfully transforms cultures. It's already been tried and proven in several public multinational companies. These concepts will also work within your organization.
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