My Safety Stump Speech
A stump speech for safety, defined here by the Balmert manual on Managing Safety Performance:
A safety stump speech is a concise statement of the supervisor’s personal beliefs, values, expectations, and best advice about working safely.
My stump speech would be given to any new direct reports as a statement for the importance of working safely. It would go like this:
Any loss of time or money can be recovered. No loss of flesh, blood, or bone can ever be recovered completely.
We must eliminate error in our work so that people do not feel the need to engage in unsafe behavior or make themselves vulnerable to unsafe conditions just to do their jobs.
Therefore, safety must be a value that we live by, not just a priority to be managed.
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