Safety Is Not Optional
Recently in the news, we saw and read about two passenger airplanes that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia because they did not have two important safety features that the manufacturer said were “optional.” Safety should never be optional, but should be essential.
A serious workplace injury or death changes lives forever – for families, friends, communities, and coworkers too. Human loss and suffering is immeasurable. Occupational injuries can provoke major crises for the families in which they occur.
Every person who leaves for work in the morning should expect to return home at night in good health. Can you imagine the knock on the door to tell you your loved one will never be returning home? Or the phone call to say he’s in the hospital and may never walk again? Ensuring that husbands return to their wives, wives to their husbands, parents to their children, and friends to their friends — that is the most important reason to create a safe and healthy work environment.
The safety and well-being of our employees continues to be a core value for the Postal Service and the Dallas District. This is why our postal vehicles are equipped with seatbelts, why we provide our carriers with dog repellent, why our maintenance workers are issued Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and why every single safety talk is of utmost importance. Thank you for helping keep safety at the forefront and remember it’s not optional, it is essential.
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