We need to note the difference between blame (or guilt) and responsibility. A foreman need not hold himself morally guilty when an employee in his charge is injured, but he cannot and should not evade responsibility under any circumstances whatsoever.
Remember that the authority to issue an order involves the responsibility to see that it is properly executed. The country depends upon you—the key man of industry, the foreman – to maintain that leadership among nations, of which we are so justly proud, in the safe, peacetime development of industry.
Industrial Accident Prevention – A Scientific Approach, H. W. Heinrich, Assistant Superintendent Engineering and Inspection Division, The Travelers Insurance Company, 1941
