Safety

Coaching Ethics

develop the person without hiding behind their consent when the drill is unsafe or pointless.

Training should build useful skills — not expose people to lethal risk when a safer drill would do the same job.

leaders owe reasonable protection to people under their authority — not zero risk, not reckless harm.

The strongest safety move is removing the hazard — not trusting people to manage it perfectly every time.

A rescue means the system almost failed — not that rescuers can handle the danger forever.

remove the hazard first, then substitute, engineer, admin, PPE — in that order.

find system causes after a miss — not only who to blame.

Championships, unity, and toughness only count while the methods used to pursue them respect human safety.

repeated close calls slowly redefine 'normal' until disaster feels surprising but was predictable.

people can name mistakes and near-misses without fear of humiliation or retaliation.