tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170623839736191950.post8963193731468560620..comments2022-12-03T19:22:46.911-08:00Comments on Safetymatters: Safety culture information, analysis and management: 2012 NRC Safety Culture Survey ResultsBob Cudlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502712287881656493noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4170623839736191950.post-80991474321966214732013-04-07T14:11:57.958-07:002013-04-07T14:11:57.958-07:00Goodhart's Law initially stated by Marilyn Str...Goodhart's Law initially stated by Marilyn Strathern: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." We see this at work in Colorado under the CSAP testing in K-12 education. The purpose of CSAP was to measure teacher effectiveness. Instead we get teachers spending significant time preparing children for the test.<br /><br />My paraphrase is: When you want it bad you get it bad. When you want it worse you get it worse.<br /><br />The 2009 measures became targets; at least to some extent. The 2012 survey measured something but not necessarily what it was intended to measure. Its the old Soviet nail factory dilemma. If you seek a production goal of number of nails, then you get a lot of small nails. If you set the production goal in terms of weight, then you get a small number of very big nails. <br /><br />The direct approach to improving the new targets did not result in improving the measures. When you want it bad you get it bad. The 2012 measures indicate that the direct approach to achieving a positive safety culture does not work. Apparently, NRC spent three years making that determination for us, but without reaching that conclusion.<br /><br />So, isn't the next step to try to figure out what does work? The alternative seems to be to try what the did for three more years. If they try three more years of what didn't work, then we have solid data that the NRC is not a learning organization.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01384288370521359131noreply@blogger.com