CREATING A CULTURE OF SAFETY, ADOPTING SAFETY AS A CORE VALUE

摘要

Is there an acceptable level of injury in the workplace? Are accidents, incidents, and near misses inevitable? The answer to those questions should be a loud and resounding NO! Yet the injury and fatality rate in the construction industry would lead us to believe that, yes, we do accept injury as part of the job. None of us-administrators, managers, or craft people-left our homes and loved ones this morning thinking that we might not come back, or that we could come back injured or permanently disabled. But that is exactly what is happening all too frequently. We become complacent, we fail to recognize the hazards of our day-to-day activities, and we develop "a natural tolerance for risk." These are the leading causes of injury and incidents.