The outcome of employees’ high-risk behaviors associated with low awareness of surroundings can be disastrous. For example, just days before Christmas, an independent contractor at Ford’s auto plant in Kansas City died while working on the assembly line. Noticing a seat out of position in the line carrier, he entered a restricted area and attempted to correctly reposition it in order to avoid a halt in production. While doing so he became caught in the conveyer belt and was pulled along the line, which lifted him 15 feet in the air only to slam him to the ground, breaking his […]