Integrating Learning into Safety

Sharing information is part of the human experience and is how we learn. The need to share information can be dated back to approximately 10,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. when the dominant method of documenting information was in the form of pre-writing symbols known as petroglyphs, seen on cave walls throughout the world. It is interpreted that these images had both cultural and religious importance to their creators. From a safety professional's standpoint, one would hope that these petroglyphs provided information, lessons learned, that addressed such things as not standing in front of a charging elephant or that the antlers of an elk must be given adequate clearance in the event the elk moves its head from side to side. Unfortunately, many of these images and concepts shared on the cave walls have yet to be interpreted. The process of sharing lessons learned in the age of computers is both easy to implement and, if well written, easy to understand.

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