What do Ethics Have to Do with Safety?

"When there is a high moral code or standard at the office employees feel safer, more relaxed, less pressured and work more easily...." Wise words from one of the workplace safety blogs I follow, Workplace Safety Tips.

I always include the message of "Respect" in my talks with high schools and corporations over the years  - taking the conversation beyond WHIMS and hard hats to creating a workplace culture of employer respecting employee, and visa versa.

Common sense, right? People work better, safer, happier when they are treated like the valuable, special human beings we all are.

Then how come it isn't put into practice more often?

When have YOU been treated with disrepect, or worked in what you would call a workplace with a low moral/ethical standard at office, factory, store, warehouse, wherever?

Share your story; most likely all of us could learn to treat each other with a bit more dignity... certain companies and managers owe that much to their valued staff.