ABSTRACT
Managers and safety management “Having the right intention or attitude to safety is not enough. The attitude must be backed up by action.”*
Introduction The exposures and liability faced by individual managers can vary signi•cantly across industries and jurisdictions. They range from personal prosecutions under health and safety legislation to criminal charges such as manslaughter and gruelling public examination in major inquiries such as those recently seen following the Montara and Deepwater Horizon well blow outs in Australia and the Gulf of Mexico. Regardless of where a disaster occurs, the legal jurisdiction, or the type of proceedings, there is a consistency to the type of questions that managers are asked following serious workplace accidents-questions that are founded on a basic line of inquiry:
What did you do?
