[ Management Systems ]

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, ancient aqueducts and railways, the pyramids, and the moon landing.  All of these wondrous engineering accomplishments were completed before computers. And before “management systems”. 

Now, we have a plethora of company management systems, mainly because we can.

Ideally, the management systems might:

·         reward the right behaviours,

·         advocate for safety in outsourced work,

·         have the right structure so bad news can travel up,

·         encourage and act on hazard reporting, and

·         create opportunities to share stories. 

Ideally, that’s what management systems in hazardous industry companies might do.  But I suspect they are more about budget and profit forecasts.