It is common in the OSH profession to believe that to be safe an organization or an individual must sacrifice productivity. We often believe that sacrificing productivity (e.g., impeding workflow, spending hefty sums on controls) is how leaders must show their commitment to safety. Why must an organization sacrifice productivity to be safe? This paradigm of required sacrifice should be abandoned by the OSH profession if it truly wants to become an organizational success partner.There are many win-win productivity and safety opportunities to be identified and created. Organizations need OSH professionals to build bridges between their peer functions and operations to create a more interdependent approach to managing business risk and sustainable success. All such challenges and solutions must be driven by the local work teams and supervision supported by functional staff. Eliminating the fork in the road will provide sustainable health to workers and the business as a whole.
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