Failure is no Option

What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you witness an incident that results in damage? For managers, the knowledge of what happens to them in such a case is of great importance. Especially if they are risk owners in an organization and share the responsibility for a living safety culture. After all, dealing with errors is the…

Companies that have to manage high risks in Switzerland are confronted with incoherent government regulations that partly cancel out each other's intended effect.

Whenever companies cause damage, there is a reflex call for more regulations and tighter controls. But this is not what will get us ahead. The error cultures in the organizations are the better loss prevention tools in today's complex settings. To do this, companies need laws that protect their data and their reporters.

If we want to bring the risks in the company under organizational control, even a well-developed risk management system is not enough. In complex settings, the safety culture plays an important role. Read about the challenges it confronts managers within this blog post.

State of the art safety management is an interaction of different disciplines. It would fall far short of the mark if we believed that we could guarantee the risks of the High Reliability Organization with management systems.