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<blockquote data-quote="Integrity" data-source="post: 1120339" data-attributes="member: 26800"><p>To all,</p><p></p><p>An organization's successes and failures in upholding it's safety values is what actually establishes the safety culture within an organization.</p><p></p><p>The values are the foundational ideals while the culture can be measured by what is said and done.</p><p></p><p>My experience with UPS in my area is that it maintains excellent safety values while the culture within the buildings that I am associated with is extremely poor!</p><p></p><p>This incongruity clearly challenges a companies larger claims of keeping Integrity at the core of all we do. After all safety is claimed to be number one.</p><p></p><p>How can this be changed? How can the safety culture change?</p><p></p><p>It will only be changed through a radical position by the working people of an organization to accepting nothing less than a safety culture with Integrity not against him.</p><p></p><p>In some of my research I have found, of the most important characteristics of a good safety culture, <strong>t<strong>he </strong>most important is when the entire workforce relentlessly pursues the identification and remediation of hazards in their workplace.</strong></p><p></p><p>There is a problem with some organizations though.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that individuals who are relentless about this are most often viewed as troublemakers. I have seen this come to pass many times.</p><p></p><p>That is why it would take the entire workforce or at least a large enough part to make the individuals who want to perpetuate safety values on paper masquerading as a safety culture the ones who are actually the troublemakers. </p><p></p><p>There are no bigger troublemakers to an organization than individuals who will work against Integrity and not with Integrity.</p><p></p><p>Sincerely,<span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman'">I</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Integrity, post: 1120339, member: 26800"] To all, An organization's successes and failures in upholding it's safety values is what actually establishes the safety culture within an organization. The values are the foundational ideals while the culture can be measured by what is said and done. My experience with UPS in my area is that it maintains excellent safety values while the culture within the buildings that I am associated with is extremely poor! This incongruity clearly challenges a companies larger claims of keeping Integrity at the core of all we do. After all safety is claimed to be number one. How can this be changed? How can the safety culture change? It will only be changed through a radical position by the working people of an organization to accepting nothing less than a safety culture with Integrity not against him. In some of my research I have found, of the most important characteristics of a good safety culture, [B]t[B]he [/B]most important is when the entire workforce relentlessly pursues the identification and remediation of hazards in their workplace.[/B] There is a problem with some organizations though. The problem is that individuals who are relentless about this are most often viewed as troublemakers. I have seen this come to pass many times. That is why it would take the entire workforce or at least a large enough part to make the individuals who want to perpetuate safety values on paper masquerading as a safety culture the ones who are actually the troublemakers. There are no bigger troublemakers to an organization than individuals who will work against Integrity and not with Integrity. Sincerely,[SIZE=6][FONT=times new roman] I[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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