Commitment
Before you set out to create the world's best CSMS, make sure that top management in your organization fully supports and has made a real commitment to your effort.
But, what is the difference between "support" and "commitment?"
- Support occurs when management tells everyone they back up your efforts and insists that everyone else give their full support as well.
- Commitment occurs when management not only backs you up with words, they back you up with action in terms of time and money.
Top management may communicate their support for safety, but the real test for commitment is the degree to which management acts on their words with serious investments in time and money. When management merely communicates their interest in safety, but does not follow through with action, they are expressing only support, not commitment.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
1-4. Full _____ for safety occurs when management not only backs you up with words, they back you up with action in terms of time and money.
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