6Health, safety –and productivity?

In 1997, the British Health and Safety Executive, which is responsible for advising on health and safety issues and for administering health and safety law, took as its slogan the motto: Good health is good business.

At first reading, that may not appear to make sense. After all, surely good business depends on:

Imagekeeping costs down

Imagemaintaining cost-efficient output

Imageavoiding labour disputes

producing what customers ...

Get Managing Operations now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.