Who is ultimately responsible for employee safety?

Is it the Owner, CEO, middle executives, managers, supervisors, HR, or the Plant Manager? Who has the most to lose? Who’s setting the expectations for safety? Are there expectations for every level? Who is going to have engagement with employees, to where they feel comfortable enough to voice their safety concerns?

I had this discussion today, which prompted this article.

Let’s be real, there is no supervisor, middle manager, HR Director, or Plant Manager who is going to air their issues with safety to the Owner or CEO. So, with that being said how many CEOs or Owners go to their facilities without others to rush them through, and tell them what they want to hear?

How many Owners or CEOs spend time engaging with the employees to see the real picture and what emphasis is placed on employee safety? I don’t believe many Owners or CEOs spend the time to observe, engage, listen, and act on employee concerns. Because if they did, safety would become their company’s core value.

I want to challenge Owners and CEOs to take the time to actually go to the floor and without anyone else around take the time to observe, engage, and ask their employees what can I do to make safety more effective, efficient, and productive.

In Chapters 5, 10, 13 of my book titled The Faces of Safety, you’ll read the importance of commitment to safety, the value of safety, and safety and the bottom line.

My book touches every business, manufacturing, automotive, retail, food processing, transportation, insurance, warehousing, distribution centers, healthcare facilities, federal and state government agencies. It will move you to change.

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