“A successful business requires one simple thing: passion.”
– Teresa Collins
Business is a relationship and customers can tell. Safety professionals understand the need to go beyond the “price” of their safety endeavors and management systems. With no engagement in the organization, safety becomes an obedient transaction. Passion for safety is enthusiastic caring; without it safety doesn’t thrive.
Business and safety: many times the two clash; however, when the ideas of prevention are aligned with business focus, they become action.
While businesses have processes and procedures to accomplish the tasks that assure results, its leadership in allowing a positive culture to thrive that drives success. Positive cultures are safe cultures not only set by a safe work environment, they are set by people feeling it’s safe to bring up the tough things, not just what’s going right. Actions that demonstrate respect, trust, and value for each person’s contribution creates and sustains a great culture both in good times and bad.
To succeed in business requires tenacity and diligence. Success depends upon understanding the market and delivering the wants and needs in a manner that engages and increases uptake.