title: Health and safety's stewardship of key business values: employees, public trust, and responsibility to shareholders.
abstract: This paper reviews how one company has been able to develop and implement a highly effective job safety and health system and to sustain it at a high level of performance. This process begins with a simple but clear corporate safety and health policy statement: "Procter & Gamble insists on safe operation." It is driven by three critical values, namely: 1) its employees, 2) its public trust, and 3) its profits. The impact of workers' compensation costs on company profits is examined, along with the enormous savings in these costs that have been achieved by the company's commitment to total quality. This is followed by brief descriptions of the company's "Total Incident Rate" and it's "Key Elements" systems, and the relationships between them. The paper concludes with a description of the company's model for enabling all employees to make recommendations for continuous improvement of health and safety systems throughout all of the company's operations.
authors.affiliation: Health & Safety, Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Ohio 45216.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Fulwiler
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D006801:Humans; D016272:Occupational Health; D010559:Personnel Management / Q000191:economics; D014942:Workers' Compensation; D017132:Workplace