Badging Criteria

[jgbarnes@ix.netcom.com (JAMES BARNES)]

Hi folks,

Regarding the comment against badging for "legal protection," I agree 
with the importance of good surveys and training.  But the central 
issue is that if a worker has a perception that you WON'T provide a 
badge, then you must have something to hide.  My experience has been 
that a program that doesn't build worker trust is doomed, no matter how 
technically proficient it is.  Surveys and training are crucial to 
building this trust, but I also think that providing a badge to a 
nervous worker who asks for one generally does much more good than 
harm; even given the things that can go wrong.

[P.S., I have had several of the scenarios (false positive, "internal 
dose," etc.) arise; I still was happy I had assigned the badge because 
now as I wasn't being viewed by the worker as an adversary, we could 
work out a satisfactory solution.

Jim Barnes, CHP
RSO
Rockwell International, Rocketdyne Division