Safety Management

I am currently up north at a minesite, I have spent the past week assisting in sorting out an ERT establishment and tomorrow start to conduct a Basic Mine Rescue course to add to their teams numbers.
As safety managers, we need to be aware that though we may have general knowledge in many areas of industry we are not experts, we can be lied to, mislead (intentionally or unintentionally) or even misunderstand what we have been told. 
It is incumbent on us to try to get the facts.  If we have workers who are no longer working to their potential, are displaying questionable attitude traits over a period of time, it is not good enough to say "oh well, his heart is not in it anymore".  There may be deeper meanings.  In these tough economic times many workers will not tell the boss bad news.

Without the truth as a basis, what you plan is based on sand, and a house built on sand will collapse.


It is our job to get the facts.  Play safe out their guys.  js