Safety and Performance Excellence: Who Owns Safety?
It is human nature to take better care of that which we own. So should we create ownership in our safety efforts?
A large part of the former USSR’s population was comprised of peasant farmers.
Yet, when the government seized ownership of all farmland and assigned some of these farmers to raise crops, the country almost starved. The government made a concession to its own ideology and gave many families a plot of land on which they could raise food for themselves, tax exempt. In the early years, these plots, which were a small fraction of the arable soil, produced 90 percent of the nation’s food. They still produce a significant portion.
