Safety Is a Value, Not a Priority: Bill Hart on Why That Distinction Matters
Bill Hart is a fifth-generation miner from West Virginia. He watched his grandfather die of black lung when he was sixteen, and later watched the same disease take his father. He now starts work at a gold mine in South Carolina alongside his son, the sixth generation in the family to go underground.In this episode, Bill makes a case that most safety programs get backwards: safety isn't a priority, it's a value. Priorities shift with the quarter. Values don't. He walks through what that means in practice, from the cultural curve that runs from safe-by-luck to safe-by-design, to the "death…
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