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support solicits worker cooperation and a good feeling
about safety. If you need to threaten and coerce workers
into complying with safety precautions, then your sales
efforts have failed.
Commands should manage OSH just as they would
manage any other organizational function. Management
should direct the safety effort by setting achievable
goals and by planning, organizing, and controlling the
methods used to achieve the goals. Workers must take
part in goal setting and in developing mishap prevention
strategies and actions to reduce injuries and material
losses.
SUMMARY
In this chapter you learned about the philosophy of
safety and what motivates safe behavior. You learned
methods of selling, marketing, and promoting your
safety program. Although safety seems to be a matter of
common sense, you learned that safety must be taught
and reinforced.
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