Jim is assistant professor in Tulane University’s Center for Applied Environmental Public Health and president of The Leemann Group LLC, New Orlean, LA. For more information, visit www.LeemannGroup.com or email jim@leemanngroup.com.
Failure to integrate individualistic thinking into our safety messes eliminates the benefit of disagreement and serious debate, which may constrict our options to dissolve safety messes.
When we are confronted with a safety or health problem, we select one of four ways to deal with the problem, or mess: resolution, solution, absolution or dissolution.