“What I do on my own time is none of your business!” I am certain that this could be the response the MUIR Safety team will be confronted with as we kick-off National Safety Month at Muir Omni Graphics in just a few weeks. The 2012 Safety Promotion that the team has been preparing for has been designed to focus on an Off-the-Job Safety initiative.
Work is work and home is home. Right? Maybe.
Last spring while in attendance at the Iowa-Illinois Safety Council Professional Development Conference, I had opted to sit in on the Off-the-Job Safety session, presented by Glenn Williams of John Deere. The concept of this session hit home with me, making perfect sense. Management absolutely has a vested interest in the home activities of employees and the safety measures taken-or not taken. Accidents and injuries occurring at home may lead to absences, restricted activities or a combination of both in the workplace. Simply put: Off-the-Job safety (or lack of) can directly affect the productivity of the company.
