Big businesses, small businesses, government agencies, and workers are all active in safety today.
In fact, safety is currently the single most acted-upon and yet routinely ignored issue in the construction industry.
We see enormous amounts of activity with relatively minor new achievement. The result of this delusion (that activity equals achievement) is that people are routinely hurt and killed on the job. Safety as a discipline needs an upgrade and a reboot industry wide.
In the next 10-25 years, you will experience a revolution in how safety and production are addressed on a construction site. It will benefit you if you know about these changes so you can position yourself to keep your job, maybe rise to a higher position, make more money and, all the while, keep you and your co-workers safe.
This book will bring you an immediate competitive advantage by seeing safety and production through new lenses. We will make those lenses clear and magnifying so you know what to do. If you start now, with what you learn in this book and if you make an earnest and effective effort to accomplish an excellent safety record, you will be better positioned to handle the rapid changes that are coming.
In the implementation of safety, character matters. It is up to you to meet the challenge to see safety in new ways and to make your effort sincere. You will need an open mind to get the full benefit of this book. Read this book as if the lives of your friends, family and co-workers depend on it, because they do!
