For most industries, safety is a cost overhead. Although essential, it can slow down productivity or even, in the event of a safety incident, lead to a complete stop while issues are resolved, and investigations carried out. However, if the approach to safety changes from a reactive one to proactive, where instead of reducing the impact of accidents they are prevented, it can become an aid to achieving greater efficiency, lower costs, and higher profit margins.
This may sound like a simple statement, but the question is “how?” How can the inevitable risks to personnel and other assets across factories, construction sites and other work environments be better managed to prevent incidents occurring? How can vehicles be allowed to go faster and the risk to pedestrians be lowered? If we can achieve both things, efficiency and value, not cost, becomes an integral part of the safety equation.