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Old 03-05-2010, 06:44 PM   #1
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If it's not intentional, it's an accident. Even preventable accidents, are accidents.
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Old 03-05-2010, 06:55 PM   #2
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If it's not intentional, it's an accident. Even preventable accidents, are accidents.
Which works with business school concepts. And is contrary to the well proven concepts taught by W E Deming. This is no accident. Management had to intentionally pervert all well understood and required safety functions to make death possible. Alienate safety functions which, on spread sheets, means reduced costs.

Those technicians ended their shift reporting that the interlock was bobbing - on both rails. For five days, nobody did anything. No management system even existed to detect what the employees knew. That was an accident? Only if you are from a business school where failure is an option. Where human life is measured in dollars. And where technical knowledge of the business is something dirty to avoid.

They did not even have a list of their top ten greatest safety problems. Typical of management that is only concerned with spread sheets. And that is trained to call it an accident so that Deming's concepts can be ignored.

It was no accident. Deaths directly traceable to overt and intentional negligence at the highest levels of Metro management. Quoted reports make that obvious. They did not do their jobs – for years. They even subverted safety functions - for years. So people died - uselessly.

We are waiting for their defense: there is plenty of blame to go around. Blame others. Maybe we should blame the victims for their own death?
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