Alcoa Case
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Yan, Dou
By reading the Alcoa case I learn about that Alcoa have achieved a significant improvement on safety issues in the past. As mentioned in the case, Alcoa had cut the number of serious injuries per 200,000 hours worked from 9.1 in 1979 to 4.2 in 1990. But they cannot make sure that they will do well according to the old approaches. They have to set up a new goal, because the challenges they meet now is different from those in the past. They have done well in raising employee safety awareness, but Alcoa cannot reduce the injury rate to zero. Because some workers don’t want to follow the safety procedures by some reasons, although they have known well the safety procedures. Firstly, some workers treat these procedures as extra requirements beyond their job responsibilities and complain about it. Secondly, some senior workers don’t realize that importance of such a restrict procedures and the potential safe issues, as they have never experienced such a safety issues in the past work. But as we know, it doesn’t mean that there is no possibility that it could happen. Additionally, although workers know that necessity of safety procedures, they are still unwilling to follow them because of some personal reasons such as their emotions and believes. What’s more, the culture that permeate this industry is also a significant factor. Some melting department workers regard getting industrial hurt as a rite of passage. Last, manager’s lax attitude on supervision also become a reason why the injury rate cannot be
Yan, Dou
By reading the Alcoa case I learn about that Alcoa have achieved a significant improvement on safety issues in the past. As mentioned in the case, Alcoa had cut the number of serious injuries per 200,000 hours worked from 9.1 in 1979 to 4.2 in 1990. But they cannot make sure that they will do well according to the old approaches. They have to set up a new goal, because the challenges they meet now is different from those in the past. They have done well in raising employee safety awareness, but Alcoa cannot reduce the injury rate to zero. Because some workers don’t want to follow the safety procedures by some reasons, although they have known well the safety procedures. Firstly, some workers treat these procedures as extra requirements beyond their job responsibilities and complain about it. Secondly, some senior workers don’t realize that importance of such a restrict procedures and the potential safe issues, as they have never experienced such a safety issues in the past work. But as we know, it doesn’t mean that there is no possibility that it could happen. Additionally, although workers know that necessity of safety procedures, they are still unwilling to follow them because of some personal reasons such as their emotions and believes. What’s more, the culture that permeate this industry is also a significant factor. Some melting department workers regard getting industrial hurt as a rite of passage. Last, manager’s lax attitude on supervision also become a reason why the injury rate cannot be