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https://amp.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-factory-injuries-email-2017-6
Tesla CEO Elon Musk told employees he wants direct reports about factory injuries in an email to employees last Wednesday.
The email was sent a few days after a report surfaced showing that injury rates at the company's Fremont manufacturing facility were higher than the industry average in 2014 and 2015. Worksafe, a California-based worker advocacy group, compiled the report after being contacted by the United Auto Workers, which is agitating for a union at Tesla's Fremont factory.
"No words can express how much I care about your safety and wellbeing. It breaks my heart when someone is injured building cars and trying their best to make Tesla successful.
Going forward, I've asked that every injury be reported directly to me, without exception. I'm meeting with the safety team every week and would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better. I will then go down to the production line and perform the same task that they perform.
This is what all managers at Tesla should do as a matter of course. At Tesla, we lead from the front line, not from some safe and comfortable ivory tower. Managers must always put their team's safety above their own."
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For a moment there I thought musk was taking a pot shot at the PAP and their style of leading from their ivory towers.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk told employees he wants direct reports about factory injuries in an email to employees last Wednesday.
The email was sent a few days after a report surfaced showing that injury rates at the company's Fremont manufacturing facility were higher than the industry average in 2014 and 2015. Worksafe, a California-based worker advocacy group, compiled the report after being contacted by the United Auto Workers, which is agitating for a union at Tesla's Fremont factory.
"No words can express how much I care about your safety and wellbeing. It breaks my heart when someone is injured building cars and trying their best to make Tesla successful.
Going forward, I've asked that every injury be reported directly to me, without exception. I'm meeting with the safety team every week and would like to meet every injured person as soon as they are well, so that I can understand from them exactly what we need to do to make it better. I will then go down to the production line and perform the same task that they perform.
This is what all managers at Tesla should do as a matter of course. At Tesla, we lead from the front line, not from some safe and comfortable ivory tower. Managers must always put their team's safety above their own."
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For a moment there I thought musk was taking a pot shot at the PAP and their style of leading from their ivory towers.
