How Workplace Safety Improves Performance
David Michaels, OSHA’s longest-serving administrator, is well versed in the impact that effective safety approaches have on operational excellence: Businesses that embrace worker safety produce higher-quality products, have more productive and loyal workers, and have fewer work injuries and thus lower associated costs. Here, Michaels shares insights from his decades of safety work in the government and private sectors, along with steps for implementing effective safety management systems.