EDITOR'S COMMENTS: Safety first... or family first?
I don’t like what’s going on out there," a 48-year-old safety vet protests. "Last time I left a job (and he’s left a few), I had another one in ten days. I always wanted to have the upper hand with my boss. Then I could speak my mind. If they didn’t like it, I knew there’d be another job. Now I don’t know. It’s scary out there. All these jobs going to India. The economy’s coming back and where are the jobs? I don’t like it."
Putting your job on the line for safety’s sake is never an easy call. But pros tell you it comes with the territory. Years ago in an interview with ISHN, former OSHA boss and Johnson & Johnson’s head safety man Jerry Scannell put it this way: