Here at the 2013 NSC Congress & Expo, an Egyptian surgeon, Alaa Zidan, who now works as a health and safety consultant in Bahrain, gave a presentation, “Positive Safety Culture and Emotional Intelligence,” that was probably unlike any safety presentation most in the audience had ever heard.
Zidan’s Powerpoint presentation gave credence to the notion that safety is a philosophy, among many other things, and tends to attract a fair number of philosophical, reflective people.