Comment by KaiserPro

Safety culture is fucking hard.

In a lot of cases its perceived that its cheaper and faster to not "do" safety. Plus unless your leadership is fully bought in, or visible on the "shop floor" safety can appear like road blocks to productivity.

"any employee can say stop and the entire place stops?!" fuck that, they'll use it to skive off.

"oh we have to pay for PPE?" they'll just nick it.

I have worked at a place where a transformation happened because there was a death and number of grievous vegetative injuries. The C-suite got nervous that funding might be pulled so made safety a top-line company metric.

It took years to make a difference, but it also varies by region.