Chris Evans's posts

Learning from incidents - Formula 1

Picture the scene. You’re the head engineer at a Formula 1 racing team, and moments away from the start of a race when a minor mistake by your driver sees your car damaged on the way to the grid...

Why more incidents is no bad thing

For a long time we've anchored ourselves to the notion that we should have fewer incidents, or none at all. It's hard to argue against — why wouldn't we want to fewer things to go wrong?

Don't count your incidents, make your incidents count

Whilst setting incident targets might work in some organizations, it's worth considering whether they provide the signal you expect, and whether the implications of doing so have been properly considered.