Valuing safety

The successful adoption of SCP will depend upon their acceptance by the food manufacturing industry. To achieve adoption (in addition to availability, cost, nutritive value, safety) the physicochemical properties and processing characteristics of the protein(s) must be fully described. The latter, functional properties, must be known to determine (and predict) how these proteins will behave in a variety of food applications, if they can be used to replace more expensive proteins, and their capacity for the fabrication of new proteinaceous foods. 

DuPont views sustainable growth as an outgrowth of its corporate values safety and health, high ethical standards, environmental stewardship, and treating people... 

Operational Deviation Limit Values Safety Deviation Emergency Operation Emergency Response... 

Step 8 Repeating Step 1 (i.e., conduct safety-related climate survey) to determine if there has been any shift in unit or organization culture toward one that values safety as its top priority. 

We encourage you to memorize the safety ethic I value safety, work safely, prevent at-risk behavior, promote safety, and accept responsibility for safety. This is a simple statement but it has broad implications and defines broad actions to implement. So let s look at each element and provide some interpretative guidelines to give us a common understanding about what is meant by each part. 

To value safety means that you make safety a positive, integral part of your everyday activities safety is a value not to be compromised, safety is an inseparable part of your daily activities requiring prudent behavior, and safety prevents and protects you, your family, your co-workers, and others from harm or suffering. 

Observation They were teaching supervisors that a variation of Heinrich s premise—88 percent of accidents are caused principally by worker unsafe acts—was factual. Their number was 80 percent. Understandably, the supervisors responded to what they were taught and investigation reports were of little value. Safety professionals—ask yourselves— what is being taught to personnel who complete incident investigation reports ... 

Organizational culture must value safety and make risk-taking and shortcuts unacceptable. Engineers, managers and all employees must accept the frailty and vulnerability of workers by ensuring that production demands do not exceed capabilities. (26)... 

I was on the phone once with an executive vice president of a multinational manufacturing company in the auto industry. His business unit was operating in Brazil. I asked him for evidence he valued safety. He told a remarkable story. His business unit had been successful and the company was going to increase his volume by 50 percent. 

We all know that the world is a much smaller place than even just a few years ago. More and more companies are going global and operating in not just different countries but very different cultures. Many will say that some countries value safety higher than others. But really this isn t so. People are people wherever they Uve. We all love our families and want a stable life and to succeed in life. What is trae is that not all countries have the resources or tools to best protect life, property, and the environment. Having said this, it is important to realize that how different cultures manifest a strong safety culture can be different and should be taken into consideration. 

Safety seen as core value Safety as a priority... 

Leaders communicate what they value through what they say and do. This is often referred to as say-do correspondence. The matrix presented in Table 17.1 graphically represents this correspondence. While important for all employees, this correspondence is even more critical for those in leadership roles. A manager in an organization can talk about the importance of safety or not, and the manager can act in a safe manner or not. Table 17.2 provides examples of the kinds of comments and actions that show a manager values safety in an organization. 

However, for MHS in seismic regions, which are to be inhabited the value safety is of first priority. Therefore, strengthening methods are selected to be technical and cost-effective, as well as less invasive (Tassios and Mamillan 1985). 

In these models customer i derives a utility of 0i(Xj) from the safety aspects of the service provided by firm j. Gj is a parameter indicating the customer s tastes for safety, and Xj is the level of preventive effort undertaken by firm j. A larger value of 0 indicates that the customer places a higher value on the preventive efforts undertaken by the firm. Some customers may value safety very highly because they might be married people with dependents or are shippers with delicate merchandise. Others may take a more cavalier attitude to safety. 

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