Two Hundred Years of Unintended Safety
DuPont, the original gunpowder manufacturer in the US, made "safety" a core company belief/goal simply because it would lose experienced workers during gunpowder explosions. To this day, monthly safety meetings, counting seat-belt usage entering or exiting the plant, rewarding safety, & numerous other safety measures have kept DuPont a global leader in both on- and off-the-job safety records. Long denigrated for its roots in gunpowder manufacturing, the resulting enormous economic impact of safety on the company, its employees & local communities should be quantified and analyzed as a great example of win-win behavior.
[Note for compleat science: Certainly the gunpowder killed people in shootouts, crime and war at the time. But, whereas gunpowder manufacturing was discarded long ago by DuPont, the benefits of it's emphasis on safety continue to accumulate.]
-k
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