We take care of what we own. When every employee and every department owns a piece of safety, the culture changes for the better.

As a case in point, Terry Mathis, in his Safety and Performance Excellence column in the December 2016 issue, pointed out that most of us will spend hours washing and detailing our own cars, but refuse to run a rental car through a free car wash. "Ownership," says Mathis, "is the reason why some safety efforts are stellar and others are lackluster. It is human nature to take better care of that which we own.