Show top-down support but facilitate bottom-up involvement

Show top-down support but facilitate bottom-up involvement 

Safety celebrations typically start off with speeches by representatives from top management. They state their extreme pleasure in the lowered injury rate. Sometimes they display charts to compare the past with the improved present. Often a manager points out the amount of money the company saved with the reduction in injury rate. A sincere request for continuous improvement is made, as well as a promise for a bigger celebration if injury rates continue to decrease. 

In the typical safety celebration, managers give and the operators receive. This certainly shows impressive top-down support. The ceremony would be more memorable and supportive, however, if the employees were more participants than recipients. In other words, the effects of a safety celebration are more beneficial and last longer if line workers do more talking about their experiences along the journey than listening to managers pleasure with the bottom line. 

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