Safety Across Time [Electrical Safety]

It is argued that when we keep an investment focus on electrical safety priorities while managing business challenges, often we are not making our jobs easier. Instead, we are ultimately creating a safer deployment of electrical and electronic systems for people that we may never meet in a future that we might not survive to see. We are positioning for outcomes that might not be personally beneficial. The extra required of us can be hard to quantify. But when we are laying the "more to do" down in a workflow, it never escapes our notice. We might think of this as the guts of electrical safety. But aligning with this season, let us consider the extra a gift for generations ahead. Complex systems, by definition, are systems of systems. As global resource providers debate fuel sources - nuclear, hydrocarbon, renewable - and governments grapple with escalating energy consumption needs, we should not be distracted from this truth: We power the capacity of electrical and electronic systems to advance. As individuals, we have unique perspectives and important knowledge. However, alone we are limited in the scope of what we can accomplish. Together we are capable of extraordinary safety achievements reaching across time.