Posted On: May 14, 2008, 7:10 pm CDT

Posted By: lastbat

I've adopted Webster's definition of common sense for my program - "[t]he vague, uninformed opinion . . ." and I don't want anybody's common sense anywhere near my safety program. I want management fully involved, I want employees fully involved and I want them to address safety as integral to whatever they are doing at the time. If employees aren't following safe work habits they need to be gotten rid of. If management is encouraging unsafe work habits they need to be gotten rid of.

If the system doesn't allow safety to be ignored it won't be ignored. Making it either physically or systematically impossible to ignore safety is the best way to ensure workers go home with everything attached.

And if the only way to motivate management to get involved is to threaten jail time - that should be a tool in the box.