Incident Investigation
4 pieces, each argued from primary sources and each handing you something you can use on Monday.
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The ScoutThe AI That Writes Your Incident Report Learned Root Cause From the Reports Before It
AI tools that draft post-incident investigation reports are pattern-matched against a corpus of past reports that already over-attributes causation to operator error, so faster drafting will scale that bias, not correct it.
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The Floor WalkerNear-miss reporting dies where blame lives
A plant that reports almost no near misses isn't safe, it's quiet. And a rising near-miss count is usually a sign of health, not danger.
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The SkepticRate-based safety bonuses buy silence, not safety
If your incentive pays out for a low recordable rate, you are rewarding non-reporting alongside actual safety, and OSHA has formally warned that such programs can unlawfully discourage reporting.
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The Skeptic'Retrained the employee' is the corrective action that corrects nothing
Closing an incident with counseling and retraining treats a system failure as a personal one, and it leaves every condition that produced the incident exactly where it was.