“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Then why pursue cake? The foundation of business is to take risks and pursue opportunity, with the outcome as productivity and profitability. Safety professionals do the same thing: we pursue the opportunity to achieve productivity and profitability safely while preserving our most precious resource: humans. Try to be successful without the right people: it can’t be done. That’s what it takes to run a smart business and safety process.
Business entrepreneurs don’t start a business simply to show up and maintain the status quo; rather, they drive for innovation: a different way of doing things.
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.