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Alex Fox's avatar

"Invisible effectiveness" is a perfect way to summarize this concept, Patrick! Two things spring to mind:

1. As you point out, it's tough to take credit for stopping things that didn't happen. Cynically, I wonder if that contributes to the notorious reluctance on the part of elected officials to invest in prevention rather than response.

2. This post made me think of the movie "Men in Black." The whole point of that fictional agency was not only to save humanity from dire threats, but to do so in such an "invisibly effective" way that the agency's own actions would remain completely unknown.

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Tom from WNY's avatar

Great post! The same is true of the Occupational Safety Professional, you facilitate implementation of a program to prevent forseeable injuries and mitigate the severity of those that do occur.

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