Eliminate Boring from Your Safety Programs

Highly educated bores are byfar the worst they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about. 

We are raising a generation that has woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes the worst kind of boredom. 

Safety and health professionals should be aware that no matter what is espoused by the company or organization, production is always job one. The safest operation is the operation that is shut down and padlocked. Production, quality, and safety can take priority within the hierarchy of priorities at any given time. For most upper 

The enthusiasm reflected by the safety and health professional in his or her daily activities can have an impact on the view and opinion of employees on the safety and health function. The simple acts of smiling and talking to anployees while conducting activities such as inspections within the operations has an impact. When an employee has a question, answer the question. If the safety and health professional does not know the answer, tell the anployee that you will find out the answer, and provide the answer to the employee in a timely manner. Remembering and calling employees by their first names when the safety and health professional talks with employees has an impact. The enthusiasm exhibited by the safety and health professional will be contagious. 

Managing the safety and health function is as much an art as a science. Safety and health professionals need to know the standards and regulations, and need to be able to interact and energize their employees as well as supervisory and upper management teams. Safety and health professionals should look for every opportunity to remove the boring and inject fun and enthusiasm into their safety and health programs. 

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Eliminate Boring from Your Safety Programs... 

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