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How Workplace Safety Improves Performance
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How Workplace Safety Improves Performance

by David Michaels
August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
5 pages
13m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review

Overview

David Michaels, OSHA’s longest-serving administrator, is well versed in the impact that effective safety approaches have on operational excellence: Businesses that embrace worker safety produce higher-quality products, have more productive and loyal workers, and have fewer work injuries and thus lower associated costs. Here, Michaels shares insights from his decades of safety work in the government and private sectors, along with steps for implementing effective safety management systems.

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