The goal of every healthy safety culture is (or at least should be) to drive ownership for safety to the grass-roots level. That means all employees at every level are safety leaders in their own right. In fact, it’s probably fair to say that most organizations have already adopted that way of thinking and communicated that message to their front lines. So if you were to ask any employee, “Who owns safety in the organization?” chances are they’ll respond with, “Everyone is.” But the real test of who owns safety can be seen in their behaviors on the floor, where carrying out the company’s official safety goal might be more of a challenge.
