When the importance of staying safe is so obvious — when the reason is as basic as making sure everyone goes home from work in one piece — why is it so hard to instill a safety culture? Why do people ignore rules created for their own protection? And why do employers sometimes enforce them less consistently than they should?
One theory I have is that for many of us, safety preaching aimed in our direction sounds like nagging. Put on those safety glasses? Yeah, yeah. Lock out and tag out that machine you’re servicing? Hey, it’s a small job. It’ll
