Synopsis
This work tells in Guidebook fashion, how successful companies are achieving "Zero" employee injury for extended periods of time. The more successful are able to reach one million workhours and more with "Zero" OSHA Recordable injuries. This success is reached using research based safety management strategies from the construction industry that apply to employers in any business or industry or culture. Specific examples are presented along with a powerful results oriented, continuous improvement safety management process that is essential for the long term. Savings go direct to the bottom line and are more significant than most executives can imagine. What is safety excellence? Can it be defined? A good definition of safety excellence is this. "A company or group of employees have reached safety excellence when all 'at-risk behavior' has been eliminated." In contrast, however, repeatedly the definition of "safety excellence" commonly found in business and industry is as varied as there are companies. Too often leaders accept mediocrity (always un-intentioned) as their definition of safety excellence. Why settle for the average? Why don't we measure our performance against the best: those with no injuries? Here, the key questions should be, "Who are they, and how do they accomplish such performance?" This books tells all and the answer is simply that employee safety is a people management issue. While the hazards presented in various industries are different, the people are the same. Copy what these in construction are doing in managing safety with their people and you, too, can achieve Zero Injury. .
About the Author
Emmitt J. Nelson has been in the safety consulting business since retirement from Shell Oil Company in 1989. Prior to and since retirement he has authored and co-authored a number of articles for trade magazines on construction safety management. During the final five years of his career with Shell Oil Company he led a corporate emphasis on bringing contractor safety performance into line with Shell's own employee's safety performance. This required leading in the creation of a corporate-wide contractor safety strategy. The results were realized in significantly reduced injury to contractor employees, lower contractor's Workers' Compensation Insurance costs and increased profits for the contractors and more competitive bidding on Shell projects. Immediately upon retirement from Shell, employers interested in reducing injury to their employees enlisted Emmitt as a consultant. He founded Nelson Consulting, Incorporated, in 1992, a Texas Corporation specializing in teaching the Zero Injury concept. He leads clients in the installation of the safety management processes required to create a zero injury working culture. The best of his clients achieve 1,000,000 work hours with zero Recordables. The author is a B.S. graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, and a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas. He was honored for his industry wide safety contribution in the year 2000 by being elected to membership in The National Academy of Construction. While with Shell Oil Company, he was Shell's representative on the Business Roundtable Construction Committee where he served as Chairman in 1988. Additionally during 1987 and 1988 he served as Co-Chairman of The Center for Construction Education, located at Texas A&M University. He also served as Chairman of the Construction Industry Institute Zero Accidents Taskforce from 1990 to 1993. This Taskforce performed research into the Zero Injury phenomenon uncovering the safety management strategies used by those employers who are successful in working millions of hours with Zero Accidents. In this book, written to benefit employers of all kinds, he explains how a dedicated and committed employer can lead their organization in a safety culture change where injury to employees is a very rare event.
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