
23Tour of the Plant
responding or “reacting” to these problems. Most of all, there was a lack of
control by the leaders. Were there written safety rules for the plant? If so,
why were they not applied? Were the fatality risks recognized by manage-
ment? Were actions underway to eliminate these risks? There was nothing
about this in the neat les and tables of nancial and production data in
Rob’s newofce.
Driving home along the straight smelter road much later that night, Rob
thought about what he now knew concerning the risks and possible conse-
quences of production. Was it possible to control these risks? If Rob couldn’t
control them, wha