Thank so much for your feedback. We are grateful that responsible business owners like you continue to emphasize safety. Unfortunately, with jobs in the manufacturing sector dwindling, workers are too often risking life and limb for low wages. Michigan’s leaders have long known that we need to diversify our economy
because we’ll never again have the kind of large scale, high wage manufacturing employment we had in the past. If we want our citizens to have access to safe jobs and prosperity , more Michiganders need to earn four-year degrees.

Please minimize the reference to comparing non union and union companies and Trump policies. There may be some validity to that argument but really it comes down to lack of empathy and lack of leadership at these companies. I have my doubts OSHA fines are a deterrent to prevent this behavior, fines just become a cost of doing business.

As the owner of a 65 year old 1000 employee highway construction company in a very highly competitive and dangerous industry the importance of safety is equal in importance to production and profits. We not only train our employees in the importance of safety it is clearly or policy and in our DNA that every employee regardless of rank who sees an unsafe situation has the authority and responsibility to shutdown an operation until potential unsafe practices are remedied. This is not some idle policy. We applaud our employees when this infrequent circumstance occurs. No job is so important that our employees should ever balance production with going home at the end of a hard days work to their loved ones at home.

Mind you we are not perfect. We have sadly had fatalities in our company and had injuries. We currently have over 2,500,000 man hours without a lost time injury but we never rest and remain committed and diligent. we are blessed to be very profitable because we put our greatest asset, our employees, first.