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Study Guide for Alive and Well at the End of the Day, 2nd Edition
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Study Guide for Alive and Well at the End of the Day, 2nd Edition

by Paul D. Balmert
November 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
64 pages
42m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 2The Case for Safety

The Case for Safety answers the simple—but critical—question every leader faces: Why is safety your most important goal in operations? It's a question that every leader knows the answer to, but not every leader truly understands that answer. If every leader did, the world of work—and the practice of safety—would look very different.

The answer is found in three simple questions:

  • What are the most important things in your life?
  • How would those things be affected were you to suffer a life‐changing accident?
  • Is there anyone working for you whose answers would be different from yours?

Once you understand the answers to these questions—a serious injury could have a devasting effect on your life, and on that point, your followers are no different than you—your mandate becomes clear: Send everyone home safe at the end of every day!

Preparation Questions

  1. What are your answers to the first two of those simple questions?
    • What are the most important things in your life?
    • How would those things be affected were you to suffer a life‐changing accident?
  2. Who do you know who has suffered a serious accident? What kind of impact did it have on that person and their family?
  3. Why do you think so many leaders in operations fail to fully understand The Case for Safety until after someone gets seriously injured?
  4. When you ask those same two simple questions to the members of your crew, how do you think they will answer?

Debrief Questions

  1. Who did you pose the ...
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