Worker Safety Needs to Be Central to Your Company’s Operations

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Especially in high-hazard industries, there’s nothing more central to your firm’s operations than worker safety. By making worker safety central to a firm’s operations, not only are lives saved and injuries prevented, but there is a greater commitment among the entire workforce, from the CEO on down to the shop floor, to achieving operational excellence. In this article, the author highlights a unique strategic partnership that helped the electrical transmission and distribution construction industry control injuries and fatalities caused by exposures to workplace hazards. It identifies numerous best practices that any industry or firm can apply to reduce injury rates and improve worker safety, so that employees and your company can thrive.

and developed and delivered training programs to thousands of workers and supervisors. OSHA estimates that the industry’s average fatality rate dropped from more than 40 deaths per 100,00 workers per year before the partnership to less than four per year from 2018 to 2022. Serious injury rates have also fallen and remain a fraction of what they were before the program began.

These approaches can be applied by executives in any firm with high-hazard work practices. But the ET&D strategic partnership also demonstrates that much can be gained when the leaders of firms that normally compete can take what initially might feel like an uncomfortable first step of collaborating on safety, only to find that such a collaboration can lift an entire industry.

 

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