This was first presented by Phil La Duke at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) on June 15, 2010 in Baltimore, MD. An mp3 of this speech is available at www.safety-impact.com.
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2. The 6 Values of the World’s Safest Organizations Safety is owned by Operations. Compliance is not enough All injuries are preventable. Safety is a strategic business element. Prevention is more valuable than correction. Safety is everybody’s job. Safety Culture
16. The Seventh Value Safety is owned by Operations. Compliance is not enough All injuries are preventable. Safety is a strategic business element. Prevention is more valuable than correction. Safety is everybody’s job. The absence of injuries does not denote the presence of safety Safety Culture
This presentation was first presented at the 2009 Society for Applied Learning Technology’s Washington Interactive Technologies Conference in Washington D.C.
All injuries are preventable. The world’s safest companies make decisions and investigate all injuries and predictable, preventable process failure modes. They investigate root causes and correct them. Safety begins with compliance. These organizations believe that merely being compliant is not enough to adequately protect workers from injuries. Prevention is more valuable than correction. These companies use leading indicators to predict safety trends and react to them proactively. Safety is everyone’s job. Far from being a slogan, these companies wrote specific, measurable safety tasks and elements into their people’s job descriptions. Safety is a strategic business element. Because injuries are essentially a form of process waste, the world’s safest organizations integrate their safety strategy into their overall business strategies. Safety is owned by Operations. These companies recognize that Operations must be held accountable for keeping the workplace safe and controlling the costs associated with injuries.
All injuries are preventable. The world’s safest companies make decisions and investigate all injuries and predictable, preventable process failure modes. They investigate root causes and correct them. Safety begins with compliance. These organizations believe that merely being compliant is not enough to adequately protect workers from injuries. Prevention is more valuable than correction. These companies use leading indicators to predict safety trends and react to them proactively. Safety is everyone’s job. Far from being a slogan, these companies wrote specific, measurable safety tasks and elements into their people’s job descriptions. Safety is a strategic business element. Because injuries are essentially a form of process waste, the world’s safest organizations integrate their safety strategy into their overall business strategies. Safety is owned by Operations. These companies recognize that Operations must be held accountable for keeping the workplace safe and controlling the costs associated with injuries.