safety awards

I often find myself trying to reconcile a company’s description of its safety program with what I hear from workers. One worker I met summed it up this way: “Yeah, we have safety talks, but a talk is where it ends. It’s all talk, not real action on safety problems.” Two recent incidents brought his remark back to life for me. It started with a recent news release from OSHA. The agency announced a proposed penalty of $50,600 to Grede Wisconsin Subsidiaries LLC at the firm’s Browntown, Wisconsin iron foundry. Funny thing is, the firm was touting its safety record last month at OSHA’s public…