
Blame Is a Dead End: Michael Bassey on Where Accountability Actually Sits
A broken door handle nobody fixed will tell you more about your safety culture than your incident numbers will.Michael Bassey has spent two decades in process safety across Nigeria, Qatar, the UAE, Argentina and North America, leading high-risk, high-consequence investigations. In 2010 he ran one that was thorough, detailed, and well received by leadership. Eight months later the same facility tripped again. Different shift, different people, same outcome. That gap is what he has been chasing ever since, and it is what led him to write Beyond Blame.In this conversation he unpacks why "human…
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