Culture and the role of major disasters – James Reason, 1998

Interesting comment from James Reason from a 1998 paper (summary in the next week or two) on the role of culture/s in major system failures.

“Because of their diversity and redundancy, the elements of a multilayered defensive system will be widely distributed throughout the organization. As such, they are only collectively vulnerable to something that is equally widespread”.

“The most likely candidate is … culture” (emphasis added)

[** I’m not convinced that this is ** entirely ** accurate since it omits a lot of other stuff like power, structures, pressures etc., but still interesting]

Ref: Reason, J. (1998). Achieving a Safe Culture: theory and practice