Are your audits effective checks on critical risk systems or merely paperwork exercises that provide comfort?
Happy to share a little article I penned for Professional Safety / American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP).
Big thanks to them for the opportunity – and for making it look all purdy.
Here I discuss some research on how audits fail, including:
· A misdirection of or blindness to serious threats and system effectiveness
· Militant paperwork and false senses of safety
· Silent failure mechanisms seemingly baked into the process
Writing this was a nice detour from two Journal articles I’m finalising from my PhD (and two more articles just for giggles).
Check it out and let me know what you think: does it gel with your experience of audits, or do you violently disagree?
Link to Professional Safety – check them out! https://www.assp.org/publications/professional-safety
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