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Involvement

Most managers learn early in their careers that achieving results is
often dependent upon collaboration with hourly-roll employees and other
personnel having point-of-control knowledge. Experience continually re-
confirms that the true experts are the individuals performing the work.
Employee involvement is clearly a critical prerequisite for identifying and
implementing the actions necessary to achieve and sustain a safe work-
place, as well as for achieving other organizational objectives.
Consider the comments of Charles Ross, operator of the Tilt-a-Whirl
amusement ride for Bill Dillard Shows Inc.:

I’m a master at what I’m doing. I don’t mean to brag, but facts are facts.
I can take any tub and make it spin like I want. I know every pin and
grease circuit in it. I’ve fallen in love with this machine. Why? I can
make people happy. Making it spin for them with all that hollering going
on—that makes me feel good. That’s why I stick with it. If I quit, I’d
probably die. 1

A line manager or safety engineer would obviously be a fool not to in-
volve Charles Ross in any initiative designed to improve Tilt-a-Whirl

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