The Great Recession likely has forever changed Operations leadership’s view of safety. Gone are the days when safety professionals could lean on “it’s the right thing to do” to justify their actions and initiatives.

I received your letter last week, and while nothing I say or do will ever erase your tragedy I do hope I can help you to understand the state of workplace safety today.

It’s been almost two months since I posted my 14 Points of Safety) on my personal blog. I’ve explored the first two points in detail on both www.philladuke.wordpress.com and here. I thought this week I would tackle the my third point, Focus on prevention.

When people hear that I work in safety they invariably ask if what I do is mostly common sense.

First, I guess my thoughts on "Corporations are people too" come around to "yeah, so what's your point?" 

The job that safety professional will be doing in 2020 probably doesn’t even exist today.