I’m not asking for much, but before I leave this great and honorable profession, I just hope we can GET BACK TO THE FUNDAMENTALS! A great place to start would be to eradicate all these “Worked ____ Days” signs and progress to celebrate what got us those injury-free days. As I have said for decades…
Too much reliance on BLIND LUCK is a dangerous thing.
And far too many workplaces are celebrating BLIND LUCK with these old and tired signs.
How often have you encountered one of these signs that is years out of date, dirty, and downright disgraceful in appearance?
We must celebrate our hard work and dedication to safety, so celebrating achieving/exceeding our goals, based on LEADING INDICATORS, is how we MUST measure our success in safety. Don’t get me wrong, injury-free days are something to celebrate – WHEN we know HOW we achieved them! Simply changing the number on a sign without having confidence that we KNOW HOW we are achieving those numbers will cause almost everyone to get too confident. And when confidence is high because of BLIND LUCK – BAD things will happen.
And it just does not have to be this way! Embrace the shift to celebrating achieving LEADING INDICATOR goals and those days when the men and women doing the dirty and dangerous work go home in the same condition they arrived in!
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