1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Full show notes: www.safetyontap.com/ep209 We are in the business of change.&amp;nbsp; But we aren't always great at it.&amp;nbsp; This is a podcast about babies and blindness, carrots and elephants, and the necessary tension between where we want to go, and where we are right now.&amp;nbsp; I don't think we will ever be able to rest on our laurels, even if we become the most influential and effective safety professionals in history.&amp;nbsp; Even if all the hazards are identified, all the controls are known and in place, I think two things will always be true.&amp;nbsp; The first truth is that the only thing that stays the same is change - change in operations, change in people, change in resourcing, change in the work environment or industry context.&amp;nbsp; The second truth, or maybe I should say what I believe to be true, comes from the High Reliability Organising research.&amp;nbsp; Even when everything seems great, our ongoing job is to create and maintain a sense of unease about things, which keeps us tuned into and anticipating change and what needs to change.&amp;nbsp; I gave up the clever but trite phrase 'my job is to make myself redundant' many years ago for this reason. I will make the argument that not only is the job never finished, that we need to earn our place in our organisation using this very logic.&amp;nbsp; And until that time, it can feel really, really frustrating.&amp;nbsp; Safety on Tap http://safetyontap.com/episodes <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/28110779/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/5a87e8/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/item/28110779