What’s Safety to you - Priority or Value? (Sharing as Paradigm shift 5)
“Safety is a priority” is probably most practiced slogan and
many organisational leaders feel pride mentioning it while speaking on safety. You
can see slogans, posters and publicity materials with this slogan. But, you will
surprise when it is told to you that safety should not be a priority. You may
or may not agree but fact is that it should never be. You know, we in our
personal and professional life, set many agenda/activity and prioritize them as
per situation and need. Sometimes, a task at priority number 1 on a particular
day get shifted at last on another day and like so. I mean to say, our priority
of a task keep on changing with the changing circumstances. But, is it so with
value? Certainly NO. From the childhood, we have been taught not to compromise
with value and as adult value become our integral part of life. We never change
our value even in an adverse situation.
Therefore, Poor safety performance is surely a result of our
understanding of safety –a priority. We individually or in a group would direct
our behaviour always and in all situations to adopt safety if find value
proposition in it. This is the situation we want in an organisation wherein we aim
that every worker adopt safety as value and not as priority in order to create
a safety culture for sustained safety performance. Give your feedback/comment/suggestion
on www.safetitude.com
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