In all of your actions, you have the responsibility to give safety the highest priority. Although cost and schedule objectives are very important at PPPL, safety always has the highest priority.

You have the right and - more importantly - the responsibility to stop what you perceive to be unsafe work practices.

You have the responsibility to listen carefully to your co-worker when a safety concern is raised.

You have the responsibility to go to a supervisor if a safety concern of yours is not resolved. You should go up the supervisory chain, all the way to me if necessary, to resolve concerns.

You have individual responsibility to follow rules and instructions. As just a few representative examples, you must listen to a safety watch when you are advised against entering a particular area, you must wear a safety helmet in designated areas, you must obey all the rules about entry into Radiation Controlled Areas.

In all of your actions you must visibly and audibly value safety performance. You need to convey to employees that while cost and schedule are very important objectives at PPPL, safety has the highest priority.

You must create an environment that provides employees with the confidence to raise safety concerns. You must be perceived as viewing the raising of safety concerns as worthy of reward. Spot awards have been used for this purpose, and I encourage their use in this way.

You must be available and must listen to employee safety concerns and provide direct and immediate feedback to employees on their concerns. You must let employees know how you intend to respond to their concerns, so that they can evaluate if their concerns are allayed by your actions, or if they need to raise their concerns at a higher level.

You yourself are responsible for raising safety concerns up through line management to assure senior management awareness of issues. This may be needed to resolve items outside of your own direct scope of work and control.

You must manage overtime work in accordance with Laboratory procedures, and you must communicate to employees the reasons for overtime activities. You must assure that overtime work does not compromise safety.

You must discuss safety as a key agenda item at your staff meetings.

You must give direct feedback on safety performance on a routine basis, and give special attention to safety performance in annual evaluations.

You have line responsibility, ultimately to me, for assuring compliance with the safety procedures of the Laboratory. We cannot tolerate violation of safety procedures.

And furthermore, you have an individual responsibility to follow all the rules of safety and so lead by example.