Breaking Barriers: Unraveling the Challenges of Sharing Incident Learnings Across Industries for Safer Tomorrow
Why do we struggle to share learnings from incidents and unwanted events with each other?
I see this issue coming up time and time again.
So even we do a lot of work within the mining industry and organizations that may have even multiple sites, they struggle to share learnings or within even on the site we struggle to share learnings between different departments. And then, let alone at an industry level, sharing across multiple different organizations or we’ve been doing some work in oil and gas and rail.
There’s been some great learnings and advancements in those industries, but also we struggled to learn.
So I’m really been trying to get my head around what might be the cause of all of this.
What I’m seeing is a bit about the legal side of things. I know if it’s under professional privilege, we can’t release, still under investigation or investigation by third parties and things like that. And I get that. So maybe that’s an aspect to it.
It also looks like do we have mechanisms that we can freely share.
And even if we did freely share, do we have the capacity to be able to take those learnings and practically do something with it?
So it is a frustration of mine. We as in our organization, we’re doing what we can to create a a good compilation of mining safety and health information to help with a critical risk management process because there’s lots of different databases out there, unfortunately not in one spot.
But also you know across industries, you know how we’re capturing that, how are we sharing those learnings?
I don’t have a solution. I’m really interested in what other people say. I feel it’s a pointless point of frustration for me, but also when I’ve seen these incidents now and I’ve been around the industry for a while and I go hang on, I know the exact same incident, same mechanism, pretty much the same outcome, same type of equipment and it’s happened somewhere else and something’s still not working and I feel we need to do better.
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