Food for thought: reactive thinkers are burying their heads in the sand

In chemistry, ‘reactive’ is actually used to express antagonism (in addition to other chemical meanings of the word). And that’s exactly what it is, and not just in chemistry! If you live reactively, work reactively and take decisions reactively, what you are actually doing is burying your head in the sand. You consider the matter, and then produce a solution that is appropriate at that point in time. But what if a serious incident occurs, one in which a fellow worker is injured or even killed ... how can you defend a reactive approach to work under those circumstances? Surely that would make you think again?