On Wednesday morning at ASSE’s Safety 2013 in Las Vegas a vexing, long-standing irritant to safety professionals is addressed by Canadian consultant Corrie Pitzer -- why safe organizations fail.
Pitzer calls it “drifting into disaster.” It can happen to organizations that have fallen into the trap of creeping collapse – the gradual and inconspicuous loss of focus that allows organizations to unknowingly wander into what Pitzer calls the “catastrophic zone.”