Incident 2: A commitment to Safty?
Wanda Zackery was hired at Landon Electronics as its first safety engineer a year ago. She was excited to take the job, as she felt this job could give her a wider breadth of experience than a traditional engineering position. She selected this position over other offers, and she felt that she could effectively utilize her electrical engineering degree from Florida State University. The company president, Martha Lincoln, assured Wanda that Landon’s resources would be available to her to fix any safety concerns that were noted. Addressing the problems: Wanda went to work and quickly identified several safety concerns, including a fairly dangerous safety concern that involved a failure to install safety guards on exposed equipment. Wanda spent a great deal of time and effort on researching and