@trysdyn If you have the stomach for it, go through the history of wokplace safety and accidents.

Starting points are arbitrary, but the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was a watershed moment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire

The US Chemical Safety Board has an excellent set of YouTube videos:
https://yewtu.be/channel/UCXIkr0SRTnZO4_QpZozvCCA

The National Transportation Safety Board's reports on air, rail, and other transport incidents are highly revealing. They still rely on "operator error" to a far greater extent than they should, but try to identify root cause.

Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents and The Next Catastrophe build on his work on organisational structures and behaviours (see Complex Organizations) to describe how such practices emerge (as well as a history of incidents).

#Accidents #Risk #OrganisationalBehaviour #RiskShifting

Framing environmental deterioration as the result of poor individual choices—littering, leaving the lights on when we leave a room, failing to car-pool—not only distracts us from identifying and demanding change from the real drivers of environmental decline. It also removes these issues from the political realm to the personal, implying that the solution is in our personal choices rather than in better policies, business practices, and structural context.

-- Annie Leonard, "Moving from Individual Change to Societal Change"

http://www.pfree.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Moving-from-Individual-Change-to-Societal-Change-Annie-Leonard-2013.pdf

#AnnieLeonard #SocietalChange #IndividualResponsibilityFallacy #RiskShifting #ResponsibilityShifting