Safety is simple…apparently: two visual representations of the same incident

Safety is simple, bruz … (apparently)

(Both examples show the same event, but each uses a different lens. Images are slides taken from one of my presentations to highlight how investigations can be as much ‘constructions’, as searches for ‘objective’ facts, entirely separate to the perceiver or who gets to draw the line in the sand).

What lens we take and our construction of what’s important, or not, and what interactions are included and omitted, influence what we find.)

As Lee Clarke quipped – planning, and by extension safety, is “unavoidably political”.

WYLFIWYF

Link to source paper below, if you’re interested.

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Study link: https://uploadsproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/mangatepopo-methods-comparison-accepted-version.pdf
LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benhutchinson2_safety-is-simple-bruz-apparently-activity-7288692829877350400-XT7i?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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