I don't know about that... Doctors famously didn't even wash their hands between patients.
In fact many still don't. The best practices and process-oriented thinking seem to not be uniformly spread.
I'm also reading Normal Accidents by Perrow and what he says about nuclear safety up to the 80s (that's when the book was published) is scary.
My thoughts: our safest endeavours look and feel safe, but they are still more failure-prone than one would assume and making them safer is incredibly hard because of social, technical and human issues exhibiting hidden coupling - system issues.
In fact many still don't. The best practices and process-oriented thinking seem to not be uniformly spread.
I'm also reading Normal Accidents by Perrow and what he says about nuclear safety up to the 80s (that's when the book was published) is scary.
My thoughts: our safest endeavours look and feel safe, but they are still more failure-prone than one would assume and making them safer is incredibly hard because of social, technical and human issues exhibiting hidden coupling - system issues.