Who are the cool kids at your worksite? Is it YOU, the PPE laden vestibule of virtue and wisdom? No offense but I highly doubt it. You might as well go to the costume shop, buy some fairy wings and a halo before walking out in front of the workforce. Regardless, you and your leaders (if they are mindful of their actions) often go out and earnestly try to influence worker behavior.

The reason I’ll bet you don’t truly understand terms like complacency or, on the flip side, ownership is because, if you did, you would have already done something about them. Instead you’re begging your workers to conform to some type of feelings to reach the goal. Nothing could be further from the truth and you're left frustrated.

Safety auditors now become the safety police. I haven’t talked to a safety professional who hasn’t bristled at the notion that, at least part of their job is to serve as the safety police. Sad but true. One would think that the front line supervisor should be playing the role of rule enforcer. After all, it is probably in their job description and they are the folks most likely to be present when front line workers violate rules, or at least present enough to learn that it happened because of equipment damage, a disrupted process, or their own spidey-senses (supervisors know).