ABOUT DOUG TAYLOR

 

Two of Doug’s experiences combined to create an interest in providing public road users with better information so that they might reduce the frequency and severity of avoidable harm:

• the first, when Doug was about  to enter elementary school, was a pair of related collisions that resulted in fatal injuries to his closest aunt and her youngest son,

• the second, while working as a professional engineer in the engineering, construction, initial start-up and operation, of worldscale facilities in the Alberta energy and petrochemical industry, was participation in the workplace safety transformation that began in the 1980s.

 

The fatal collisions shattered the family of Doug’s aunt, resulting in Doug’s parents and grandparents providing ongoing care and homes for her other two children.

 

The workplace experience showed how some simple and well-established tools can facilitate positive cultural change.  Workplace safety improved so much that driving to and from work became the more hazardous workday activity.  Over time, the change led to questioning why at least some of what worked so well at work – such as timely and meaningful error and consequence information combined with comparative performance feedback – would not also work when driving to and from work and elsewhere.

 

 

Drive safer – always,

Doug Taylor,

Safer Vehicle Use Limited,

Red Deer, AB

leadrs.ca@gmail.com