A Safe Bet

摘要

Safety must be more than just inspections and meetings. Although those actions are useful, they achieve little more than just checking off some boxes. There are those who say safety should be a habit like buckling your seatbelt every time you get into a car. Again, this is worthwhile but insufficient, because habits are personal and begin and end solely with the individual. Safety must be part of a company's culture-in fact, it is arguably the most essential characteristic. This is particularly true for industries such as transportation, mining, construction, and chemical and power generation. These businesses employ large numbers of people, are asset intensive, and usually create products and services that influence enormous numbers of stakeholders. As such, a safety culture is vital to their long-term success and to their risk management strategies. In short, a company that can manage its safety can manage its business.