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Comfortable
Being
Uncomfortable
This issue of AMT has a throughline
of safety running between its pages.
I noticed it as we were putting together
the issue; it wasn't something the
AMT team planned when we initially
put together our ideas for this edition.
Yet, that's kind of how safety operates in life. I'd
By Walker Jaroch,
Editor
wager most people don't think about safety until it's
in their face, hopefully because it was there rather
than not. A bump cap saving you from a bruised
scalp, rather than receiving a headache, for example.
Most people, outside of daredevils and thrill seekers, are not actively looking
to put themselves in unsafe conditions - particularly not at work. It's
why they're called accidents and they usually happen when people become
complacent, assuming instead of verifying.
I've never liked the word " complacent, " though. It has a negative connotation
and no one wants to think of themselves in the negative, so we say to ourselves
" I would never become complacent. " But complacency only happens when a
person has been operating in certain ways or under certain conditions long
enough to become comfortable with them, regardless of what is truly safe or
not. Comfort is the keyword. Comfort is the root of complacency.
We could all stand to get a little more comfortable with being uncomfortable.
And that's hard to do, I'll be the first to admit. We're mammals, our biology
has us wired to avoid stress and seek peace; we're all about comfort at the end
of the day. But that can mean you avoid the stress of double-checking work,
leaning instead into the comfort of routine. It can be comfortable working in
unsafe ways. Even more problematic is being so comfortable you don't want
to acknowledge accidents waiting to happen.
Being uncomfortable spurs us to fix and improve conditions so we can be
comfortable-so people can be safe.
So, take some time in your day to get uncomfortable. Take a hard look at
yourself, what could you improve? Walk around your hangar. What do you see
that don't want to? Open lines of dialogue with your colleagues and employees
and be open to the potential of constructive criticism.
Volume 34, No. 5, September/October 2023
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