Punk Rock Safety Ep. 20: I'm So Sorry Tony

Sometimes bad shit happens to good people. We know it's weird, but here's another episode with a NOFX title. This time, it's a song about Tony Sly's (from No Use For a Name) death. Good dude and an awesome musician, but dead way too early.

What about when organizations who are trying really hard to do safety stuff have an accident? Or a fatality?

That can feel tough to reconcile, even though we can (and should) separate outcomes from building systems that effectively reduce safety risk. What do we do when there are emotional or political calls for something more? There's something unsatisfying about saying that sometimes shit happens. There's some tension there, and that's what the episode is about.

The boys talk about who decides what a "good" organization is and what a "bad" outcome is. Dave - the lover of zero - makes a good point about understanding the difference between doing lots of things and an actual, meaningful change to work. How do we figure our way around failures of foreign, peeling back layers of monotony, and all that other stuff.

We're biased, but we think it's a conversation worth having. You could be really good at safety management and have a fatality (and the other way around).

"What if all organizations are just as fucked as each other?" Exactly.