Your safety officer is the only person who thinks about workplace safety. Now characterized by a cooperative team approach, with each employee acting as his peer's keeper, organizational pride in a clean safety record, and with teams setting goals for ever-greater safety improvement, everyone at DuPont considers himself the safety officer. With an overall industry average of 2.1 lost-workday incidents per 100 employees per year, DuPont's average as of 1997 was 0.03 incidents. And it didn't happen by accident. According to Lutness, DuPont sees its safety record as a competitive advantage, and has exhaustively researched the costs both direct and indirect of workplace accidents.
Safe operations save money.
You don't have a training program. Start making safety awareness and training a part of your organization's culture. It may even give you a crucial edge over that new competitor across town.