(Forwarded) To businesses still struggling with EHS

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(Forwarded), these are some of the better viewpoints and course materials I’ve come across recently. Everyone, take a look and share your thoughts; I fully agree with the author’s views. Before I graduated and left school, a manager in the industry told me that he would prefer someone with a clean slate rather than a professional with several years of work experience. At that time, I understood it as a sense of teamwork under the same corporate culture. Up to now, I have gradually come to understand the philosophy of work. First, only by adhering to the idea of changing the current security situation can actions be taken to bring about change. I have worked with the EHS departments of many companies. In companies with a poor safety culture, such departments often lack a clear set of working principles or adopt a defensive attitude; although they are busy carrying out various inspections, training sessions, and audits, they pay very little attention to changing people’s attitudes and behaviors. The idea that it’s sufficient to complete these tasks is, in my view, detrimental to the company. Some people on the forum have also asked me how to start learning EHS in order to improve a company’s EHS performance. Most of them focus on acquiring more EHS knowledge so as to appear like experts in front of others. I don’t think it should be like this: EHS covers such a wide range of aspects, and for someone new to this field, there’s no need to delve too deeply into it; a brief systematic overview is sufficient. What’s most important for me now is to put my own principles into practice – change equals performance. Within a company, it is necessary to carry out actions, provide training, implement project changes or adjust systems in a thorough manner, in order to gradually change managers’ mindsets and employees’ behaviors. If change has occurred, that’s good; if not, continued improvement is needed, with an emphasis on actual results. If I were the HR manager, I would prefer to see changes you bring about in your previous company; only changes in personnel and the current situation can be considered as the result of your commitment to practicing safety principles, while everything else should be regarded as part of routine work requirements. The attached materials are very systematic; I hope everyone will study them carefully, step by step, in order to accomplish more of the things that EHS truly needs to do.