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Hope you all stayed safe and singe-free for the 4th of July! We had a blast going to parades and fireworks. The only injury in my house was from overeating parade candy… gut rot.
I took the excerpt below from Tim Garnder’s post (with his kind permission). Although I usually read his posts on the safety community we both belong to, he also writes a personal blog, Safety By Choice.
“For the next several years we used his [the safety manager's] expertise to create an environment where everyone was their own safety manager, teams cultivated experts in safety systems and investigation processes, and we experienced the best performance for similar facilities in our company….Everyone has to accept the fact that ultimately, they are their own safety manager. You [the safety manager] are just there to help them be the best safety manager they can be.”
I was intrigued by the positive results Tim and his team got at the company he worked for by upholding to the philosophy that EVERYONE is a safety manager and the actual safety manager – they were there just to help out. He said it took a lot of work upfront, but eventually people got it and it made a huge difference.
How are you being your own safety manager? How can your safety manager better support you?
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