“You know, a lot of safety managers don’t like that saying, ‘Safety Pays.’ They think it’s cold and heartless, impersonal,” said the PPE vendor from the 2013 NSC Congress & Expo show floor.
“But let me tell you, when you get down to it, a lot of businesses look at safety now in terms of dollars and cents. I think it has to do with the recession of 2008. That’s when I started hearing customers talk more about the cost of safety. Businesses back then were trying to squeeze every cent out of their costs that they could. And it was like suddenly their eyes opened up to the dollars lost to injuries, downtime due to accidents, medical costs of severe injuries, and the drain on the bottom line, which wasn’t in great shape to begin with back then.