This one is bound to offend some folks in the safety profession, but it was some very wise advice a dear friend and former boss gave me after I submitted my first Corrective Action Plan (CAP) to him after a corporate audit. Just 12 years into my career, I was taught the hard way how CAPs get written and managed to closure. But his analogy of what he expected of me stuck with me to this day. Our one-on-one discussion went something like this…
NOTE: This former boss is one of my best friends today and was a client for 20 years after we parted ways in 2003; he is a former CSP and began his career as a safety engineer inside the company where we met)
Bryan, do you want to be a world-class safety engineer, or did you miss your calling as an interior decorator?
