Adding to the liturgy of safety
These are things for which no limit is prescribed: writing unit tests; running meetings with a clear agenda; talking to stakeholders; acts of kindness; and the study of safety
These are the things which not only profit one in the immediate moment but build up a safety culture for the future: refactoring one’s own code; reviewing a peer’s code; establishing test systems; conducting blame-free incident reviews; documenting processes; increasing the diversity of your teams; resolving differing mental models; and the study of safety engineering principles surpasses them all.
This riff on Mishnah Peah was inspired by a new safety teaching program we’re beginning at work, a stray comment about the “safety liturgy” and some demonstrations of the same by friends, and also by this reframing of the Buddhist Four Noble Truths.