Breakout Session – Is best practice always best? How to know when to use best practice and what to do the rest of the time…

Campbell Warren, Senior Health & Safety Manager, Laing O’Rourke

Traditional safety management has been largely founded on finding the best way of doing things.

What happens when the problem you’re trying to solve is ambiguous, where there is no single best way to approach things?

Perhaps its even a little perplexing, or despite best efforts you’ve only had limited success in addressing it?

There’s a good chance its a complex problem. What can we learn from industries where complexity is rife, and certainty is a must; where the stakes are high and reliability is the minimum requirement? Can we transfer those learnings to our workplaces?

This session offers insights from such places and invites participants to explore ‘best principles’, as an alternative to ‘best practice’.