doubts
well my week back after a week off was one for the books. tumbling out of the metaphorical crucible like a hundredweight of molten metal it just sat there for the first few days before ramping up the pressure over the last two.
and crap-on-crutches was that pressure ever tight!
unpaid overtime, stressed nerves, frayed tempers, spats flaring like gas pockets cooking off above Jupiter everything was a little more difficult and my own temper was rocking as a result.
We all have weaknesses, I conceal mine with humour, silence and attempted charm but that doesn't mean what I feel is concealed at the same time. most of the time I'm ok, but like all mammals, if I get hungry or tired or feel overtaxed I will bark.
it's natural.
the alternative is I climb the new hospital with a high-powered rifle.
I don't want to do that just yet.
I was talking to an anaesthetist yesterday about the current situation. Told them that over the past hundred years almost every non-terrorist work accident can be traced to the same set of rationale. from medical to industrial to personal. The causes of some of the most horrific accidents ever are either budget cuts (companies trying to squeeze as much blood from their workers as possible), poor communication between people e.g. shift A hands over to shift B and forgets vital information so shift B pulls the wrong lever and the world explodes. Or a workforce working longer, harder hours with reduced numbers and poor morale. or a combination of the three.
We are human beings. Human beings make mistakes, it's natural. It's how we learn. Most experience comes from experiences and the best experiences to learn from are the bad experiences. To drown the workers in paperwork, litigation, bureaucracy, guilt, blame and doubt isn't the best way to improve safety. It is the best way to keep the manager's butts covered, to shift blame onto the workforce, not to those responsible for hammering the stress levels of the workplace until they buckle. If that's the plan then well done, you succeed.
I know some people who are becoming so focused on the details they're missing the bigger picture. they literally cannot see the wood for the trees. Whether this is good or bad is irrelevant, the correct box is ticked so the litigation suite is negated. please feel free to operate as normal.
I don't know. I just think that back in 1988 Piper Alpha was running at 110%. The joke passed between the workforce was "Safety over production except when safety interferes with production".
The subsequent tragedy brought about wholesale changes in the way the oil industry works on the grounds of health and safety and labour. At the time the NHS wasn't running as breakneck as it is now. a conservative government was in power and things were bad but the tech side of surgery wasn't as advanced as it is in 2013.
My spidey-sense is telling me something's coming on the horizon. something big and all the check-sheets in the world aren't going to stop it happening. I just hope I'm not in the blastzone when it hits. and if I am I'm faced with a better option than those poor bastards were stuck on that platform 25 years ago.
and crap-on-crutches was that pressure ever tight!
unpaid overtime, stressed nerves, frayed tempers, spats flaring like gas pockets cooking off above Jupiter everything was a little more difficult and my own temper was rocking as a result.
We all have weaknesses, I conceal mine with humour, silence and attempted charm but that doesn't mean what I feel is concealed at the same time. most of the time I'm ok, but like all mammals, if I get hungry or tired or feel overtaxed I will bark.
it's natural.
the alternative is I climb the new hospital with a high-powered rifle.
I don't want to do that just yet.
I was talking to an anaesthetist yesterday about the current situation. Told them that over the past hundred years almost every non-terrorist work accident can be traced to the same set of rationale. from medical to industrial to personal. The causes of some of the most horrific accidents ever are either budget cuts (companies trying to squeeze as much blood from their workers as possible), poor communication between people e.g. shift A hands over to shift B and forgets vital information so shift B pulls the wrong lever and the world explodes. Or a workforce working longer, harder hours with reduced numbers and poor morale. or a combination of the three.
We are human beings. Human beings make mistakes, it's natural. It's how we learn. Most experience comes from experiences and the best experiences to learn from are the bad experiences. To drown the workers in paperwork, litigation, bureaucracy, guilt, blame and doubt isn't the best way to improve safety. It is the best way to keep the manager's butts covered, to shift blame onto the workforce, not to those responsible for hammering the stress levels of the workplace until they buckle. If that's the plan then well done, you succeed.
I know some people who are becoming so focused on the details they're missing the bigger picture. they literally cannot see the wood for the trees. Whether this is good or bad is irrelevant, the correct box is ticked so the litigation suite is negated. please feel free to operate as normal.
I don't know. I just think that back in 1988 Piper Alpha was running at 110%. The joke passed between the workforce was "Safety over production except when safety interferes with production".
The subsequent tragedy brought about wholesale changes in the way the oil industry works on the grounds of health and safety and labour. At the time the NHS wasn't running as breakneck as it is now. a conservative government was in power and things were bad but the tech side of surgery wasn't as advanced as it is in 2013.
My spidey-sense is telling me something's coming on the horizon. something big and all the check-sheets in the world aren't going to stop it happening. I just hope I'm not in the blastzone when it hits. and if I am I'm faced with a better option than those poor bastards were stuck on that platform 25 years ago.