
Promoting Safety from Within
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere was an incident in the office this morning. One of our fellow employees dropped a taquito off the roller grill we had installed in the marketing department. (What can I say, the microwaves are busy at lunch and those rolled hotdogs just make Tuesdays better.) She hit her head on the corner of the desk and dropped to the floor. There is a large miliary presence in the corporate office, and we have many individuals trained in first aid. The situation was handled quickly and efficiently by professionals. Her condition was assessed; she was given the “all clear” to return to work and an official incident report was filed. Our coworker survived with a little bump on the head and finished her taquito without further incident. While this may seem like an exaggeration, (okay, to be fair we don’t really have a roller grill, and the incident was entirely made up) a culture of safety means following company policy for reportable incidents. As small as the incident might seem, there are potential lessons to be learned from even