Why don’t management and the workforce attack injuries as a team? Maintaining a safe workplace is too often a battle because employees—from hourly workers to management—fail to see the value in safety. To make matters worse, the two groups have such drastically different views of safety that it’s challenging to get them to work together. To remedy this situation, you need to take a look at safety from the perspectives of both managers and workers. Safety is one of those sacred areas for managers. To voice an opinion against it would be suicidal to a management career. Yet most managers have a negative attitude toward safety.
What did his actions tell me? Production was his number one priority. If you had asked him his feelings about safety his response would have been, "Safety is number one."