People are our most valuable resource at Woodcock and Armani
and that is why safety is of prime importance to us. The Woodcock and Armani safety process focuses on accident prevention through team building leadership, motivation and communication that involves all employees at every level. It’s a behavior-based process driven by people with positive attitudes who enjoy their jobs and know how to have fun at work. Our common goal is simple “… have fun, be productive, do quality work, and make money without getting hurt doing it.”

Safety, quality, and production
are equal partners in the work process. To be successful a company has to achieve all three and …“Attitude”… is the key element that drives successful achievement. It’s a positive attitude that promotes good behavior – safe behavior, productive behavior and quality work. Superior attitudes produce superior performance and poor attitudes produce failure.

“It’s all about attitude – your attitude towards safety, your attitude towards getting the job done and your attitude towards quality.”
Bill Wheatley - W/A Foreman


An effective training program
does more than just transfer knowledge and skill, it inspires people to apply and practice what they have learned “… to walk the talk and do the next right thing.”

Rules and regulations do not effectively prevent accidents, people do.
The problem with most safety programs is that they focus too much on memorizing regulations and developing rules for safety sake. These programs tend to place a big emphasis on what workers are doing wrong as defined by the rule and not what they are doing right to be safe. This results in a safety culture of blind rule followers who see hazard awareness and accident prevention as an after thought “after it’s to late and an injury occurs. Under these safety cultures workers are often sited for violating a safety rule when no real hazard existed or their workers are required to read and sign safety talks that have nothing to do with the hazards of the job. In some cases the safety talks are just pencil whipped for show; signed by employees to demonstrate safety training or safety meetings were conducted when in fact all that was accomplished was a collection of signatures were taken at break time. Programs like this are not about safety but about how to put on a fictional show. Safety is not a generic rules business or sign the safety talks business, it’s a people business. This is why the W/A safety process is a people based program that looks at what produces safe behaviors and eliminates unsafe acts. It’s a non-threatening, no names, safety culture that constantly works together to achieve an accident free work environment.