ABSTRACT
This chapter serves to highlight the leadership mindset required to make a safety program successful and the pitfalls that can derail such efforts. Creating a safety culture requires a vision that goes beyond a safety cop mentality. From a Lean perspective, try identifying safe practices that actually increase efficiency and productivity while at the same time provide workers with proper protection. A safety manager watched a plumber climb a ladder four times to solder on a connector. He had eighty to go. He could have worked faster from a scissor lift, and he would have been comfortably restrained within a passive system. To truly achieve a Lean safety culture, our production and safety goals have to be aligned. It's safe and productive, not safe or productive. Both the safety and production sides of the house have to own this as the goal.
