Safety Consciousness in the Oil Business

I find this massively ironic.

Mark Byrd, a lead safety engineer at Shell, quoted on EarthSky:

Byrd said his company wants everyone to be safety leader. He said the best ones have a chronic sense of unease and look for things that might go wrong.
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holding a mirror to the sites, so helping expose blind spots and unsatisfactory situations, and then providing support to the leadership of those sites to address those situations, but also having the courage to escalate issues if needed, to arrest issues before they go wrong.

Hmmm...

(see also People Can Forget to Be Afraid at Desdemona's)