Does your CEO understand the value of protecting and promoting worker health? Is OHS valued, prioritized and focused on as a core value within your organization? Does your CEO “get it”? That’s a question the National Safety Council poses each year for companies across the United States. The NSC has recently released the 2014 list of ten CEO’s that “get it”.

1. WORKPLACE SAFETY
Does Your CEO “Get It”?

2. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Patrick Gallagher
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Safety is a core value because our mission is
enabled by the talent and hard work of our
employees and associates. There is no better
way to repay their service than to do everything
we can to ensure that they don’t get hurt doing
their jobs.
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3. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Thomas F. Gilbane Jr.
Gilbane Inc.
Gilbane has been a family company for 140
years and we embrace all our employees,
subcontractors and anyone else on our project
sites or in our offices as a part of our extended
family.
Even a single injury is one too many.
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4. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Paul W. Henley
U.S. Navy
There are three crucial areas in which an effective safety
program makes invaluable contributions to the Department
of the Navy (DON): war-fighting excellence, our moral
obligation to our people and cost avoidance.
First, the purpose of DON is to defend the national security
interests of the United States by keeping the peace,
deterring opponents, and fighting and winning if deterrence
fails. Accordingly, the Chief of Naval Operations has
identified war-fighting readiness as his highest priority. The
simple reality is that the safer a military unit is, the more
effective it is in battle …
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5. Why is safety a core value at your organization? (continued)
Paul W. Henley
U.S. Navy
When the equipment is properly maintained, when the people are
well-trained and well-led, when cohesive teamwork is universal and
situational awareness is high – all characteristics of an effective safety
program – a military unit is at the peak of its capabilities. And
needless to say, when poor safety practice results in damage to our
equipment or injury to our people, we are doing the enemy’s job for
him.
Second, our sailors, Marines, and DON civilians are all brave patriots
who have volunteered to go in harm’s way – to give their lives if
necessary – to defend the values our country holds most dear. We
owe a clear moral debt to them to provide the safest possible
environment in which to live and work – anything less would be
unconscionable.
Third, we live in times of scarce resources in which every dollar
counts. Good safety practices save billions a year in the cost of
medical care for injury, training of new personnel and replacement of
equipment.
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6. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Terry M. Kasnavia
PIKA International Inc.
Safety is about protecting people. Whether our
employees, subcontractors, client representatives
or the surrounding community, PIKA’s respect
and appreciation for people is the driving force
behind our aggressive pursuit toward a safe and
healthful workplace – making safety a premier
core value within PIKA.
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7. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Craig L. Martin
Jacobs
Being safe is elemental to everything we do and
everything that matters to us. The three core values
that shape our conduct around the world balance:
• Our relationships with clients
• Profitable growth
• The people who make us successful
All three values depend on our ability to run a safe
and ethical business. Our BeyondZero® program
recognizes this; it goes beyond rules, policies and
procedures to promote a genuine Culture of Caring
throughout Jacobs …
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8. Why is safety a core value at your organization? (continued)
Craig L. Martin
Jacobs
We encourage all Jacobs employees to work safely,
take an active role in the safety of those around
them, and have the courage to intervene whenever
they deem something unsafe. BeyondZero is 24/7
for us: at Jacobs, at client sites, at home, and in our
communities.
We believe we can profoundly influence the safety
of our employees, their friends and families, our
communities, and our industry.
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9. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Rick Medlin
Fruit of the Loom Inc.
Our employees are our most valuable asset, and
because we believe that, our commitment is to
provide a safe working environment so at the end
of the day we arrive safely home to our family and
friends. This commitment stems from one of our
core values – respect for people. We believe that
fundamental to that core value is the necessity of
providing all of our employees with a safe work
environment.
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10. Why is safety a core value at your organization? (continued)
Rick Medlin
Fruit of the Loom Inc.
Our company engages in various production
processes, from purchasing cotton to produce
yarn for our underwear and apparel products, to
manufacturing gymnastic and sporting goods
equipment. Many of those processes carry with
them inherent safety risks that must be guarded
against. We dedicate substantial resources to
education and training for our employees to
ensure the safety of the workplace. We also
engage our employees directly in safety teams to
encourage their direct input into health and
safety process improvements.
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11. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Bill Monet
Akima LLC
I believe each employee deserves a safe place to work. It’s also
important to embrace a corporate safety culture that will
extend to our employees’ friends and families. As a Native
Alaska-owned company, safety is part of our heritage. Living
and working safely has a direct positive impact on the more
than 13,000 Iñupiat people of northwest Alaska who own our
company, and those strong roots in safety translate directly to
the livelihood of our employees.
Our core safety values put people first. This view is embraced
by our leadership and drives our corporate culture.
Leadership’s commitment to safety sets the expectations of
performance throughout our company to every member of our
team. Employees are empowered operationally each day to
identify and mitigate workplace hazards.
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12. Why is safety a core value at your organization? (continued)
Bill Monet
Akima LLC
This helps shape safe work behaviors and attitudes. It changes
our approach from compliance to commitment each and every
day. These core safety values are essential to maintain the
highest standards and exceed the expectations of our
customers – it’s that simple, and that important.
Our employees are as diverse as the marketplaces we work,
both federal and commercial, across 50 states and
internationally. We operate as a high-performance team in site
support services, construction, mission systems engineering
and technology, and technology products and solutions. We
recognize that performing work safely has a direct impact on
profitability and survivability. It is essential that we constantly
focus on safety as we expand into larger and more complex
industries.
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13. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Michael W. Rencheck
AREVA Inc.
As a forward-looking energy company, AREVA recognizes
that our commitment to safety is the foundation for
building and maintaining trust and public confidence. It
protects the community, our customers and our people.
It’s part of being a good citizen, a good neighbor and a
good partner. Safety drives our commitment to
operational excellence and delivering clean energy
solutions for a better tomorrow.
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14. Why is safety a core value at your organization? (continued)
Michael W. Rencheck
AREVA Inc.
Safety is the critical success factor for our people,
products and services. It defines who we are and plays a
central role in everything we do. By instilling a culture
with a focus on safety, we are empowering all of our
employees to focus on the details and to do what’s right
the first time. This leads to improved performance and
reliable, consistent and predictable delivery of our highquality products and services to our customers. At
AREVA, we place safety first and strive for excellence in
all that we do.
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15. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Elane Stock
Kimberley-Clark Professional
One of the four values at Kimberly-Clark is caring. Caring
about our people means caring about their safety. While
our products may evolve, the values at Kimberly-Clark
remain timeless. For more than 140 years, our values
have been woven throughout the fabric of our company.
The values of authentic, accountable, innovative and
caring describe how we work with and are judged by our
consumers, business partners, investors and each
other.
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16. Why is safety a core value at your organization? (continued)
Elane Stock
Kimberley-Clark Professional
As part of selling safety products and solutions, we also
must live it in every facet of our company. In order to
deliver on our brand promise to create “Exceptional
Workplaces,” our work has to be centrally focused
toward safeguarding people. People make our
workplaces work, and we make their workplaces
exceptional through our relentless dedication to create
healthier, safer and more productive work settings.
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17. Why is safety a core value at your organization?
Dwayne A. Wilson
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Our core values – Safety and Security, Integrity,
Teamwork, and Customer Satisfaction – provide the
underpinnings of our success and for the overall quality
of performance expected of us. It’s our foundation and
what we expect of ourselves in pursuit of our vision to
be the standard of excellence in managing federal
assets by delivering knowledge, innovation and
experience in nuclear materials management …
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18. Why is safety a core value at your organization? (continued)
Dwayne A. Wilson
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Given the nature of our work, which involves handling
nuclear materials, high hazards work in laboratories and
working in remote forests and swamp locations during
South Carolina summers, safety has to be our foremost
consideration. We take pride in working safely and
securely and are committed to maintaining a world class
safety culture at the Savannah River Site.
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19. Source: 2014 CEOs That “Get It” from the National Safety Council
View the full post on the NSC Safety+Health
website for the rest of the CEO responses.
Click the link below:
http://www.safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/9758-CEOs-NSC?page=1
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