Workplace safety and innovation are not often linked together. Think of the safety meetings you have attended (or led) over the years. They tend to follow a common formula and are not highly engaging. Many folks walk out of the safety meeting the same as when they came in, only 30 minutes older.
When I ask people at a work location to give me an estimate of the percentage of those meetings that were “highly effective,” the answers range from a low of 5% to a high of about 75%, with the average being considerably less than 50%.