Scott Gaddis is corporate manager, Global Occupational Safety and Health for Kimberly-Clark Professional, based in Roswell, Ga. For more safety information, visit www.kc-safety.com or call (800) 255-6401.
In a manufacturing environment, a company’s greatest asset is its workers, and protecting those workers from illnesses or workplace injuries is critical to success. Creating a workplace that is free of illness and injury begins with one crucial decision: making safety a core value. Better yet, it should be an organization’s chief value.