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We didn’t have an injury. Nothing felt urgent. Then the OHS order arrived. This story isn’t about unsafe work — it’s about what gets exposed when your safety system is examined and clarity matters more than you expect.
As a Safety Advisor, most of the safety problems I see don’t start with negligence. They start with reasonable assumptions — the kind that make sense day to day — until the business is forced to test them under pressure.
This article reflects on how periods without incidents can feel like proof that safety systems are working — even when they’ve never been required to perform under pressure. The Calm Before the Claim shows why serious incidents tend to reveal long-standing assumptions, not sudden failures, and why clarity is far easier to gain before it’s forced by an event.