Safety Practices: Espoused Theory and Practice

“Is it safe?” – Doing ethnography on safety cover ups

“…Employing AHE explicitly is even more rare in management settings (e.g. Vickers, 2019, 2020) The physical and mental fatigue associated with AHE should not be underestimated, and the HR professional nature of copious note taking and observation of people was utilised and by the end of data gathering there were also thousands of documents (e.g. all his e-mails, weekly safety bulletins, policies, procedures, note books, etc).…”

“…I was partial, partly driven by my moral value system requiring fairness for employees and by the removal of a colleague (see above) for expressing an opinion based on evidence. I engaged in activity to delay redundancies at Sulwath so that they could be achieved through slower voluntary processes, rather than immediate compulsory means (see Vickers, 2019, 2020). There is no doubt my partiality as an HR manager was heightened by the ethical and moral situation caused by organizational context.…”