We need to talk about contracts
FORTUNATELY we’ve got a significant number of our membership who know exactly how to talk about contracts. I’m sure most of us would admit to skipping over the small print and ignoring the cookie requests in the quest for tech access. Most of us, that is, I suspect, except for our commercial managers.
Rightly or wrongly it’s the contractual elements that save us all and enable collaborative working in a notoriously claim based economy. The claim is that the contracts are what hold back tech adoption and progress. Whilst I’m in agreement with this, I also see that it’s a commitment to safe practice and protection of the industry from being over-exposed from rash decisions.
As a ‘risk taker’ I often fail to appreciate that contracts are not holding us back but keeping us buoyant but I do worry that as a profession we may miss out on major innovation vectors driven by unregulated tech that totally disrupts our safe and steady processes meaning we are not quick enough to adapt to rapidly changing scenarios. Plus ça change? I hope not.
Andy Evans FCInstCES, President