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112 Module 13: Property Damage and Waste Control Program Loss Control Management (LCM)

Final Advice on Program Implementation

Some reasons for the implementation of this program:
• It measures resistance to change. Usually little resistance is offered when an obvious big values
outweigh a small amount of increase in effort on everyone’s part.
• It permits systematic problem solving – To provide specific “success stories”. Success begets
success, and the surest way to achieve several goals and objectives is to attack individual
problems systematically and thoroughly.
• It builds awareness of multiple program values.
• Only realized to fullest when opportunity has been provided to let management see and

experience them in a way that allows for full and proper evaluation.
• It provide in depth understanding of the program.
• By utilizing the step-by-step approach. Two major things are accomplished.
• What one is proposing is much easier to seek
• Management will better understand what is being sold each step of the way.

Summary and Program Benefits
You cannot tell which of the accidents will result in an injury. All you can know is that in roughly

one out ten somebody is going to get hurt. All that is certain about the others is that they cost money in
the form of damage or delay. Therefore, the root of safety lies not in just investigating the accidents. It will
also pay handsomely by reducing damage. It is an industrial variation on the theme that if you look after
the pennies (which is the damage) the pounds (which are the injuries) will look after themselves

Surprisingly few people seem to be able to appreciate that who goes under the name accident
prevention is, in the main, injury prevention; and that all so-called accident reports are actually reports on
a selected sample of accidents resulting in injury to men. It is, of course, understandable that accidents
terminating in injury to life and limb should assume special prominence in human minds. Yet, paradoxical
though it may sound, this exclusive concentration on injury-causing accidents is also the chief obstacle to
further big steps forward toward their prevention. In the light of all this, it is scarcely an exaggeration to
designate damage control as a “modern key to safety”, in tune with the technological advances of the

second half of the 20th century.

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