"We used to have safety committee meetings. We found that information from those meetings was not necessarily being disseminated out to the shop floor. Now we have meetings with all employees after our lunch break, usually on a Thursday or Friday once or twice a month, and we use a large screen TV in our break area to review photographs of unsafe situations spotted in the last week or two. The simple act of touring the plant with a camera gets most employees to straighten up their areas and behavior."

—Ed Arzouian, Compliance and Special Products Coordinator | Bates ...