jargon

Architecture & practice·Incidents and what happens after

the engineer who ran the command explained exactly what they saw, because nothing bad was going to happen to them for it.

Just culture

Also calledblameless culture, blame-aware culture

A culture that separates accountability for outcomes from blame for individuals, so that people report what actually happened. It is not the absence of accountability, which is the standard misreading of 'blameless': the team still owns fixing the system, and repeated reckless behaviour is still addressed. What it removes is the incentive to be vague, which is the single largest source of lost information after an incident.

Commonly confused with