My experience as Safety Supervisor at work for the past 15 years leaves less than stellar memories. With a printing career starting at Ennis Business Forms in Paso Robles where safety meetings were non-existent, my step-up to a new job with another company in 1972 saw little change. OSHA was just starting to dig their heels into the sides of American industry. In the past forty years the safety landscape has changed so much that a new mindset has replaced the old: Safety first, to last. Depending on your mother-company management committment, you will either dive in and walk the talk, or risk city, county and OSHA audits out of the blue, along with huge fines for non-compliance.
With only 11 people at our local facility, keeping up on all the training (let alone all of the quality and procedural training required by corporate) can be overwhelming when we're busy. Training schedules get put on hold as a rule, but eventually get done. Today is an example.
It was a good time for the Annual IIPP, Fire Prevention, and Hazardous Materials training today. Not a lot of work in the shop. Perfect! I took time yesterday to prepare, and we ended up training on the big annual stuff plus Compressor Hose Safety, Sexual Harrassment, Code of Safe Practices, and the Facility Map. Maybe there was something else. It was a jumble of items crammed into one hour and ten minutes! People were bored out of their minds by the time we finished. Some bored and mad at a few new rules which they said they wouldn't keep anyway.
God's safety rules are the 10 Commandments, epitomized by this: Love God above all other things and love others as you love yourself. Ignored and broken by all of us, the Great Auditor will require an infinitely heavy price when it's time to pay up --- but for grace and redeeming mercy bestowed on all who have the price paid for them in His Son, Jesus the Messiah.
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