The continuous advancing journey of globalization or business’ relentless search for new markets and less expensive suppliers has gotten even more drastic. This global change has been made much easier by lowering of trade and political hurdles and, of course, by rapid technological advances in communications and transportation networks. It will eventually make “The (safety) world flat.â€
Before the safety “stakeholders†get upset by these remarks, I suggest reading on...
Borrowing from the best-selling book, The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman, the title relates to the term “flat†as “the playing field being leveled†or flattening. It’s true in most everything produced today, and certainly true in our safety industry, although many “stakeholders†still do not or will not recognize or accept it.
As Friedman writes, “...intellectual work, and intellectual capital, can be delivered from anywhere — anytime.â€