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Blame Culture: More Dangerous Than You’d Think

10 September, 2012 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Blame Culture

In January 2001, 18-year-old Wayne Jowett died whilst receiving treatment for Leukaemia at the Queens Medical Centre, in my home city, Nottingham. The chemotherapy consisted of two drugs: Cytosine, a drug that is injected directly into the spinal fluid and Vincristine, a drug that is injected into the patient’s blood. A tragic accident The doctor […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accident prevention, blame, error proofing, medicine, swiss cheese model

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