http://www.safetyxchange.org/financing-safety/real-life-tales-from-front-line-safety-directors-3 Putting Safety First Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:58:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1647 hourly 1 http://www.safetyxchange.org/financing-safety/real-life-tales-from-front-line-safety-directors-3/comment-page-1#comment-75 Is Closing a Plant Better than Letting It Run Unsafely? | SafetyXChange Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:56:59 +0000 http://www.safetyxchange.org/?p=3243#comment-75 [...] just read Phil Wells’s story of two weeks ago on the plant closing due to cost of making it safer to operate. I work in a mill [...] [...] just read Phil Wells’s story of two weeks ago on the plant closing due to cost of making it safer to operate. I work in a mill [...]

]]> http://www.safetyxchange.org/financing-safety/real-life-tales-from-front-line-safety-directors-3/comment-page-1#comment-33 christopherta Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:50:30 +0000 http://www.safetyxchange.org/?p=3243#comment-33 Your story clearly highlights the difference between safety management and risk management, and the need for safety practitioners to move beyond the parameters of soley safety. By putting 3,000 people out of work, I fail to see any success in this story. No business can operate without risk, and as SHE Practitioners, we need to understand that we will always be balancing the demands of production versus the demands of a safe and healthy working environment. We fail when we do not make management see the necessity of compliance, as in your case they did not see the benefit of the changes to bottom line performance, very short sighted and immature management team that they may have been. We should understand that for every work stoppage demanded by the safety experts, the company bleeds money, and we cannot have a 100% safe working environment, never mind one that is non-compliant. Your story clearly highlights the difference between safety management and risk management, and the need for safety practitioners to move beyond the parameters of soley safety. By putting 3,000 people out of work, I fail to see any success in this story. No business can operate without risk, and as SHE Practitioners, we need to understand that we will always be balancing the demands of production versus the demands of a safe and healthy working environment. We fail when we do not make management see the necessity of compliance, as in your case they did not see the benefit of the changes to bottom line performance, very short sighted and immature management team that they may have been. We should understand that for every work stoppage demanded by the safety experts, the company bleeds money, and we cannot have a 100% safe working environment, never mind one that is non-compliant.

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