“Are we kidding ourselves?” Dr. Tom Krause, founder of BST and now an independent consultant, asked several hundred safety pros at a session at ASSE’s Safety 2013.
Kidding about what? Dr. Krause’s point: low OSHA injury rates are deceiving many companies into believing they have better safety performance than is really the case. Fatalities and serious, often life-altering injuries on the job are not declining but flatlining, he said. Yet ask many CEOs or manager about the state of their safety program, and they say, “great.”