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Because you don’t learn from mistakes that way. You make a mistake, company goes bankrupt, many people on the street who are all allowed to look for a new job and nobody learns from his mistake.

There is a reason why a so-called “no blame culture” is the best solution for detecting errors as quickly as possible, solving problems and adjusting procedures. In such a setting people dare to come forward with mistakes and there is room for improvement. Does that mean people are never punished in such a setting? Of course not. If you intentionally make mistakes, if you are intentionally negligent, if you ignore the procedures, if you provide incorrect information, … you will certainly be punished. But then we no longer talk about accidental but just on purpose.

And what is careless handling of data? A person who has his receivers in Cc instead of Bcc, that is a mistake that is easily made, but you do have a data breach immediately, for example. A small mistake that was quickly made. But if you put a few hundred people into it, it can suddenly cost you tens of millions, something that small companies or, for example, leisure associations cannot cough up at all.

You speak of carelessness and negligence. But sometimes procedures fall short, sometimes it’s just mistakes. Sometimes it’s just someone who forgot a comma somewhere. Is that careless? Or is that just human?

When there is intent, when there is gross negligence. Absolutely, tackle that trade. But that is not what Marrtijn writes.

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