Find the Fault, but Blaming Someone Gets a Caution

Faults are neutral events or conditions.
I believe that blame begins when language assigns agency to a person or a collective actor (“Brian’s fault,” “managers are to blame”).
In a charter-bound team (Spatz Team Charter), any personal attribution is treated as a correctable rule breach by the speaker, not an identity claim about the target.
This creates reciprocal accountability across all signatories, including managers, and levels the playing field by shifting the locus of blame from the defect to the phrasing or behavior that assigns it.

If you signed the charter, you can be corrected.
Anyone who agreed to the Spatz Team Charter, including managers, accepts this rule: don’t attach a fault to a person as if the fault is who they are. If someone does it anyway, the speaker, not the fault, is the one out of line, and anyone in the team can caution them and ask them to rephrase it in a neutral way.

Same rule, same rights, same accountability.
Because everyone participating signs the same charter, everyone follows the same rule, has the same right to raise a caution, and can be held to account for how they phrase or deliver blame. This makes accountability shared, not role-based, and keeps the playing field level.