Can you mandate a Safety Culture?

I first saw this article, "You Want Safety Culture? Then Pass a Law" and did not believe what I was reading. But I looked it up and there it is. Here is the orginial posting, http://bit.ly/prtQor.

Amplify’d from info.sen.ca.gov

(e) The commission and gas corporation shall provide opportunities for meaningful, substantial, and ongoing participation by the gas corporation workforce in the development and implementation of the plan, with the objective of developing an industrywide culture of safety that will minimize accidents, explosions, fires, and dangerous conditions for the protection of the public and the gas corporation workforce.

The bill would declare that it is the policy of the state to place safety of the public and gas corporation employees as the top priority

SB 705, Leno. Natural gas: service and safety. Read more at info.sen.ca.gov

 

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