The importance of looking out for one another’s safety is truly a sign of a mature and dedicated working environment. It’s one thing to look out for your own safety but it takes it to a whole different level when you are committed to the point of looking out for your co-workers’ safety also.
How about you?
- Do you guide co-workers on the correct way to complete a task safety when you see they are doing something unsafely?
- Are you willing to approach a co-worker on safety?
- Are you afraid of confrontation?
- Is their safety worth that risk?
On the opposite end of the spectrum is when you have complete disregard for your fellow co-workers’ safety. This hit home in this recent article out of New Jersey:
Worker sentenced in deadly alcohol-related accident at port
The Associated Press
Jan. 16, 2018
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — A longshoreman who was driving drunk when he struck and killed a co-worker with a top loader on a pier in New Jersey is now headed to state prison.
Union County prosecutors announced Tuesday that 50-year-old Victor Belo has received a three-year sentence. The North Arlington man had pleaded guilty last July to vehicular homicide in the August 2015 death of 49-year-old Judy Jones at the APM marine terminal in Elizabeth.
Authorities say Belo had several drinks during lunch before he returned to work at the pier. He soon struck Jones, a Newark resident who suffered multiple severe injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
No other injuries were reported in the accident.
This incident brings it home clearly – that you can be held personally responsible for your failure to safely work causing a direct impact on a co-worker. Not the best motivation – but certainly one that hits you right in the gut.
(Source: https://safetytoolboxtopics.com/Behavioral-Safety/looking-out-for-the-other-guy.html)