The
Lablogatory people sent their
email today. Today they were thinking about what motivates people to take
the safety aspects of the job seriously.
Usually their
missives are good; I was disappointed with today’s. In many ways it was an exercise
in management-speak. What does motivate people to take safety in the laboratory
seriously? Stick or carrot?
For myself I always
remember a discussion when I first started in lab work in September 1981. The senior
chief medical laboratory scientific officer suggested I might think twice about
taking out a pension as (at that time)
people in our line of work generally didn’t live long enough to take that pension.
Nowadays by
wearing rubber gloves and eye protection and not eating and smoking in the lab,
we *don’t* die of lab-acquired
infections.
That’s
motivation enough for me…
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