Why is it important to care about small HSE violations in manufacturing companies?
Shouldn't we only care about injuries & deaths?
Only if we want the company to fail and workers to die.
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Shouldn't we only care about injuries & deaths?
Only if we want the company to fail and workers to die.
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2/ Yesterday, I pointed out that a famous automotive company has a lot of OSHA violations. The most common response I got is that those relate to meaningless violations.
Perhaps. But only in a theoretical ideal world, meaningless violations are unrelated to incidents.
Perhaps. But only in a theoretical ideal world, meaningless violations are unrelated to incidents.
3/ In the real world, incidents *approximately* follow a pyramid as the below one (image from my book gum.co/opexbook).
The more "meaningless violations" a company has, the more a big incident is waiting to happen.
The more "meaningless violations" a company has, the more a big incident is waiting to happen.
4/ Moreover, the more lax is management in safety, the more lax it is in general.
Based on my experience as an operational excellence consultant, given an industry, the company with the most incidents is also likely to have the poorest quality.
Based on my experience as an operational excellence consultant, given an industry, the company with the most incidents is also likely to have the poorest quality.
https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1316852721702625281?s=20
5/ (A clarification: here, I only talk about manufacturing. I do not know whether this also applies to, say, software.)
6/ Even more important than Health, Safety & Environmental violations, are violations in HSE reporting protocols.
For three reasons:
- They show bad faith
- They show terrible management
- They hide a problem, making it grow larger and larger
For three reasons:
- They show bad faith
- They show terrible management
- They hide a problem, making it grow larger and larger
7/ Safety, and even more "meaningless violations of safety," are one of the most effective leading indicators to estimate the direction of manufacturing capabilities of a company.
If you care about a company, you should also care about "meaningless HSE violations."
If you care about a company, you should also care about "meaningless HSE violations."
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