Safety

I suspect this is going to sound a little too idealistic, but I'm very serious about safety in our factory. It's critically important to me that everyone go home at night with the same number of fingers, the same number of eyes, and the same amount of blood, that they arrived with in the morning. I've told you how I've basically stopped a lot of production activities to allow us to burn off excess inventory. Today one of the machines ran for the first time since March. I watched the employee run the machine (which bends candle tubes into shape) without wearing safety glasses. Years of training at Boeing had me wanting to cover my eyes with my hands since I wasn't wearing safety glasses either. An hour later we held an all hands meeting and I put a safety glasses policy in place. Anyone running a machine must be wearing safety glasses. I'll pay for high quality comfortable ones, but everyone has to use them. No one raised a fuss and 15 minutes later the same machine was running with the employee wearing safety glasses.