What's Your Opinion: Do you feel a sense of personal responsibility when a worker injury occurs?

The main function of being Safety Coordinator is really being the scapegoat for management, so every injury and accident is my responsibility.

If I feel they are properly trained, as they all are, and an accident happens then I don't feel responsible. But if it could have been avoided, and it was due to lack of training then yes i do....

I feel a sense of responsibility; however, there are circumstances that I feel the employee just totally disregards their training. This can be frustrating when I know the employee has been properly trained.

I always wonder "What could I have done differently?"

Regardless of the circumstances behind an injury, I'm always left wondering if I could have trained differently, if there was a better way of doing it that we failed to implement, or if there was a lack of recognizing that the employee has a different way of comprehending training material(s). In my view, there is a passion that drives the average safety professional to a higher standard that is injury-free. This is a process; a state of mind. Injuries contradict it and so we often place some degree of blame on ourselves regardless of the circumstance.

I always wonder what I could have or should have noticed to change the circumstances.

Rex Butler, I name you commenter of the year. Every time I see one from you I nod my head in agreement.

Human beings are different because of socially responsibilities.Even if the injured individual has been trained, i find it that i failed to train others to stop his unsafe act and report the matter to the channel

Depending on what the injury was. Either way it make you take a look at what you are doing and wonder if it is good enough

In hindsight post incident, there is always more that could have been done. There is always room to improve. We all own the solution, we all own the results.