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NASP - Workplace safety certifications, training and OSHA compliance programs for the safety professional.

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The NASP Safety Philosophy

In industry, business, and government workplace safety programs are based on one of three principles: regulatory compliance, monetary savings, or ethics. Those whose programs are based on regulatory compliance are concerned with avoiding fines and citations, and base their safety decisions solely upon existing safety regulations. Those whose programs are based on monetary savings are concerned with reducing their cost from employee injury, illness, and death. Those whose programs are based on ethics are concerned with doing whatever is necessary to provide a safe workplace.

Regulatory Compliance

Many employers feel that regulatory compliance and workplace safety are the same thing. An army of "safety consultants" market their services by encouraging employers to fear regulators, which only exacerbates the problem. Most of the world's workplace safety regulatory agencies make it clear that their regulations are only minimum requirements. In most cases, OSHA turns out to be a toothless tiger, willing to change "willful" citations to "unspecified" citations so employers can avoid criminal charges and of civil liability. Willful violations that result in the death of an employee may be reduced to "undetermined."

Violating a legal regulation and violating an moral or ethical principle are not the same thing. In fact, reducing ethics to little more than compliance may lead to more non-compliance than if ethics were the guiding light for workplace safety. "Compliance" means not transgressing the limits defined by law. Business and society need regulations and laws along with enforcement. Compliance is a good thing, but compliance is not ethics and compliance does not guarantee a safe workplace.