The Culture of Blame Continues

This reverts to the principles of contributory and comparative negligence, defenses used by management hundreds of years ago to absolve themselves of safety responsibility and put the blame on the employees. Bill Hoyle (2005) explains, 

The primary theory used to explain the causes of industrial accidents is that mistakes by workers are responsible for virtually all accidents. This is the foundation on which health and safety programs have been based for decades. Therefore, the ultimate goal of corporate safety programs and local union safety committees is generally, the same, to have zero worker injuries. Safety attention focuses on finding ways to get unsafe workers to change their ways. (p. 2) 

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