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“"Provide safety services that will save, preserve and enhance lives. How: through the values of Honesty, Integrity and Christian virtues while marketing the safety culture concept of "Zero Injury "as an operational norm."
Why Management Must Proclaim Zero Injuries
By Bennett Ghormley
March 23rd, 2009
All supervisors and members of management must embrace the ideology that they are responsible for injuries that occur during the execution of work under their direction. When pain and loss occurs by injury, it becomes a moral issue; one that declares that no one has a right to harm another in this country. Regardless cost, schedule and even quality, management must find ways to eliminate all accidents on job sites. The only acceptable number of injuries is zero.
As a supervisor it is the duty to observe workers and be aware of potential at-risk situations, unsafe actions and behaviors. When such is seen, action must follow. Supervisors must have an effective communication process with workers so that suggestions for elimination of hazards and a safe path of execution may be provided to those doing the work.
Supervisors must believe that injuries are preventable and none are acceptable. With that thought, a prudent supervisor should do everything in his/her power to eliminate at-risk situations that could lead to incidents that cause pain, suffering and losses to individuals and to the company.
Supervisors should empower workers to step away from hazardous work and re-plan their actions, re-move hazards and re-start the work only when safe.
Safe work is the plan. Zero injury is the goal!!!!
Use all your abilities to prevent injuries at the work site. It’s the right thing to do for all the right reasons.
