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"Cutting straight to the case, Wascher was not punished in any way." Have to appreciate a writer who doesn't force you to read until the very end of their piece in order to get the ending of the story.
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Look to your left, look to your right, count the heads. Now divide the money that was lost through the number of heads. This is the theoretical ceeling- how much you could make if there were no shareholders and you had your own company - or had a union.
> Now divide the money that was lost through the number of heads. This is the theoretical ceeling So, if we assume a $10 million loss divided by 100 heads, that means your ceiling is -$100,000 if you were to organize yourself. Let's see: Six months to build a Facebook clone on an average developer salary plus some other business costs will put you in the red by approximately $100k, and then you'll give up when you re…
Why don't we as a society apply similar safety culture to driving cars and trucks as we do to aviation? MANY more people are harmed or killed by automobiles than by aircraft per person-mile traveled. A small improvement in automobile safety could make a large impact on society. Many of the types of improvements implemented by aviation mentioned in this article, when applied to the automotive world, would look like im…
I think it's a fairly safe assumption that if you are alive to read the article, you are unlikely to have been in a plane crash (yes, I agree some plane crashes are survivable). Next article: Why you've never been struck by lightning.
It sounds like you didn't read the post. It's not an assumption, it's the explanation of why.
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> Now divide the money that was lost through the number of heads. This is the theoretical ceeling So, if we assume a $10 million loss divided by 100 heads, that means your ceiling is -$100,000 if you were to organize yourself. Let's see: Six months to build a Facebook clone on an average developer salary plus some other business costs will put you in the red by approximately $100k, and then you'll give up when you re…
For a day lost? So its 31 days a month, this value muptiplied with 52.. 161.200. 000$ - not good, not terrible.
Something that appealed to me during my years at Bridgewater is the willingness to attribute failure to individuals without making those individuals suffer. In "blameless" there's no personalities mentioned at all but in reality personality and individuals matter. EG if we had an outage because I put code into production w/o review, yes it's a systemic failure but it's also something about me, something about my mana…
Unless you are acting with malice, your actions are a product of the system and procedures in place. Those should be the focus of improvement, not individuals. E.g. preventing prod pushes that contain unreviewed code.
Of course we need to talk about individuals, but that's performance management and not incident management.
One of the most important pieces of legislation in the UK that helped improve safety in workplaces was the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which placed a duty of care on organisations to look after the wellbeing of their staff. One of the tenets is to take near misses seriously. According to a health and safety engineer in a course I attended, near misses are like gifts from the heavens, as they show you exactly…
> One of the most important pieces of legislation in the UK that helped improve safety in workplaces was the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, which placed a duty of care on organisations to look after the wellbeing of their staff. I've not been following closely, but I suspect the Post Office did not follow this. Are there ramifications happening along these lines for the Post Office fiasco? Or is it already a big…
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With the number of data breaches we see cropping up, I wonder if a similar law could be written to hold companies liable for the safe handling of personal data.
TBH having software engineer output in general be liable to some minimum safety, correctness and quality standard would be a god send for the world. But of course the developers will revolt against that.
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Among other things, the investigation into the Titanic accident gave us the requirement of having enough life boats for everyone and standards in how to evacuate a vessel. Captains being pressured by mamagement / organization to do hazardous stuff is a thing still, in aviation as well as in seafaring.
SOLAS (Safety Of Life At Sea) an international convention (ie International Law agreed by most countries) is indeed in big part a result of Titanic. SOLAS covers a lot of safety improvements and has continued to improve over time especially after a later version of the treaty makes updates "tacitly accepted" basically instead of signing treaties periodically the members agree that they're all automatically bound by a…
But, even though you would very rarely need them, likely never for a vessel which operates close to shore, they must be maintained periodically because SOLAS, and maintenance of lifeboats is pretty dangerous because they're on the outside of a ship. So you may end up killing or seriously injuring more people by having lifeboats.