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The names in certain details have been changed to protect the safe and the unsafe. But believe me, every item in here is true. I got a comment the other day that I believe that you should just quit and move on when the going gets tough. If you're in the safety industry, nothing could be further from the truth. I told this person, no. I think you have to make a choice between managing safety and being an enabler of unsafe practices. Are you an enabler today On safety wars? I think this is a decision we all have to make for ourselves, whether we are involved in any number of organizations, whether it's a professional organization, an organization like a charity, an employer, any type of organization that might be going down the wrong path. What do I mean? I realize that most people can't just pick up and move on even though there was a news story of the last week or so, that there is a great resignation coming and it's all we're already in it where people are quitting for everything. I recently found a letter I wrote to One of my former friends from about 15 years ago and I said when people figure out that they're not happy where they are and they have time to contemplate things, then there is going to be a societal shift. Well I think staying cooped up for 18 months, better part of 18 months on lockdowns, unemployment. You name it. A lot of people came to the realization that maybe they should move on. But let's get back to the question at hand. It comes down to this is your organization improving. Growing the safety is supported is they're continuing process of improvement. Are you getting better as the organization getting better? Right? Does your organization value? You were safety? There's a lot of organizations that, that doesn't happen and safety and afterthought here are some things that I hear from people who are against safety. Safety is necessary. Evil. Safety is just to check on the box and on checklist or on an application for bid. We are committed through safety. We hired a safety person, let alone that the person has no authority. No leadership responsibilities can't take leadership responsibilities is being undermined, Its being relegated to a place of derision and change. What do we mean by this? Something goes wrong And then you're the safety person gets thrown under the bus. So you have to go and cover for dysfunctional people. Take the blame for accidents because you didn't do the job or someone else didn't do their job. They're an unsafe worker. There are bad at their this their that whatever, whatever it is, they make excuses for an unsafe culture. Are you the one making excuses for an unsafe culture? If you are, you're probably an enabler? What's an enabler? According to a common definition? The term enabler generally describe someone's whose behavior allows a loved one or other to continue self destructive patterns of behavior. So how else does this manifest? You mentioned the double of things just now. How about we buy the wrong PP. We need nitrile gloves. So what do they do? They give you a latex gloves? Because latex gloves are cheaper. They're not doing the right thing by their employees, by their management or anything, whatever that means, blaming the worker, not the system in the organization, not the incentive system and everything else that goes on in an organization that the C suite has to fix. How about incentivizing production at the cost of employee injuries? How about general abusive behavior? We've covered this several times over the last couple of months. These are just a few of the things out there that go on. Yeah. So what I'm going to ask you to do is go back and ponder this. Are you an enabler? Are you an empower? I'm not saying a word. Eventually. There's a cost to enabling people who's gonna pay for it. Is it going to be the employee with injuries your organization with liability? Is it gonna be yourself personally professionally, Your conscience? I can tell you this much, the people that you're enabling to work unsafe and who have the self destructive behaviours. The self sabotage is that you're enabling. They're not going to be paying the price, It's gonna be you, it's gonna be other people getting hurt. what have you? Whatever negative things could happen, enabling bad things. That's a sure way to lose the safety war for safety wars. This is Jim paulsen. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are those of the host and its guests and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the company. Examples of analysis discussed within this podcast are only examples. It should not be utilized in the real world as the only solution available as they are based only on very limited in dated open source information, assumptions made within this analysis are not reflective of the position of the company. 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