SAFETY: THE NEW COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN A WORLD OF LIABILITY

摘要

A growing number of business owners are waking up to the fact that keeping workers safe isn't just a matter of being a good corporate citizen or an astute executive, it's becoming a matter of survival. This isn't just your typical safety engineer playing chicken little, melodramatically insisting that the sky is falling; far from it. The number of companies that use a prospective supplier's safety record as a criteria for awarding their business is rising and manufacturers who have long considered worker injuries a "normal" - albeit undesirable and repugnant- cost of doing business are finding themselves losing profitable contracts to competitors with better safety records.