Post by Vivian Gangoo

Her company failed its first third-party safety audit in eleven years the year after she left. She had been the safety director for a civil contractor in Georgia for 18 years. She knew which crew configurations historically produced near-misses before any incident was ever reported. She knew which project sites had drainage conditions that created slip hazards in the first 24 hours after rain. She knew which equipment operators needed a check-in at the start of a new job type and which ones would ask for help if something felt off. None of it was in the safety manual. When she retired, her successor inherited the binder. He didn’t inherit what was behind it. The audit failure wasn’t a compliance problem. It was a knowledge problem that looked like a compliance problem. #ConstructionIndustry #SafetyManagement #KnowledgeRetention #SuccessionPlanning #WorkforcePlanning #InstitutionalKnowledge #LaterIsGreater