[SystemSafety] Another academic safety workshop / why not industrialists ?

[Les Chambers]

Martyn
This was a serious question. If the strategy did work it would restore my
faith in humanity. In a past life I was involved in a similar scenario. The
difference was that we concentrated on evangelising quality to our clients
not our competition. The strategy did work and the story is documented here:
http://www.systemsengineeringblog.com/better/

One thing I learnt is that it is very hard to motivate people off the page
(for example, by handing them a set of quality standards). One cannot
separate great ideas from the manner of their articulation and the manner of
their articulation will depend on who is doing the articulating. And what we
say about safety and quality is deeply connected to the way we say it, which
is connected, in turn, to the values we hold. Great truths are to be tested
not on the page, but in the real world. Only then will they be embodied by
the unbeliever (usus est magister optimus).

If you could translate the paragraph above into Latin I would be most
grateful.

Les

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industrialists ?

What! You believe that "post hoc, ergo propter hoc"?       This is a
serious safety forum!

:-)


Martyn


On 18/01/2015 11:31, Les Chambers wrote:
> Martyn
> And ... can you finish the story? Did the strategy work? Did the heap
grow?
> Did many companies come forward and see the value of formal methods? And
did
> Praxis rise above them to those "broad sunlit uplands" of increased cash
> flow?
>
> Les
>
>

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