Safety Management Series - Safety Training For the Corporate Executive

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Throughout my professional occupational health and safety career, getting senior managers to clearly understand, and then support health and safety efforts, has often challenged me. To those of us who know that the Return on Investment (ROI) is clearly there for the taking, the frustration levels can be high when senior management just doesn't seem to "get it." My experience tells me that the reason they don't get it is that very few, if any, senior executives have had formal safety training or education. It's just not part of the normal education and training route to the executive office. If there has been any training at all it has usually come in the form of a safety practitioner trying to get resources from them in an executive meeting. Worse than that, the source of their training may have been a run-in with government officials when an incident occurred or violations were found through an inspection.

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