What if the paperwork that management come to rely on, rather than providing assurance of safe work methods, is more a ritual, disconnected from real work, or how people create safety in the field?

What if, in some cases, this paperwork creates a false sense of safety and indeed, masquerades as a false butt covering exercise?

Today's source is: Borys, D. (2009). Exploring risk-awareness as a cultural approach to safety: Exposing the gap between work as imagined and work as actually performed. Safety Science Monitor, 13(2), 1-11.

More research at SafetyInsights.Org

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