My plant manager and I have been dancing around a safety issue for six weeks where we both know the new conveyor system isn't properly guarded but acknowledging it means shutting down production for three days and missing our quarterly numbers. We keep having these conversations where we talk about 'monitoring the situation' and I can see in his eyes that he knows we're both choosing the numbers over doing what's right.
More people experience this than they realize.
You and your manager both know the equipment isn't safe, but fixing it means missing your numbers, so you keep talking around it.
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