Workplace safety a Prespective from Paul O’Neill
The following is a speech given by Paul O’Neill, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury that and published in the Industrial and Hygiene news in March 2001. “Workplace safety is a subject I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about and studying."
He backed up these words during a luncheon speech at the Workplace Safety Summit, held in late March at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He proudly displayed a bar graph showing Alcoa’s lost workday rate steadily declining during his years at the helm, from 1.86 cases per 100 workers in 1987 to 0.14 in February 2001.


