Everyone’s Responsibility

Managing risks does not stop with the management team. Everyone is responsible for the safety of the business environment. In the workplace, it is everyone’s job to make sure that everything runs smoothly. Whether you are a manager in charge of overseeing your employees’ work or an employee who has been given responsibility over a certain task, refusing to take ownership for mistakes and instead leaving them up to someone else can eventually lead to more problems than if one had just taken care of their own responsibilities. The consequences range from unfair workloads being unfairly distributed among those at fault versus not taking responsibility when they should have all along. In the end this affects morale because people may feel like they’re doing something wrong but don’t know how without asking which then leads us into another area: accountability.