DEAR EDITOR:
It’s a different world today, one that I find troubling. Our problems seem more intense today.
While attending a recent high school football game to see my grandson play, my first thought upon seeing the crowd was “who has a gun and wants to do harm?”
I am not anti-gun; I own guns, and I qualify every year to ensure my capability of handling a gun. I support strict gun laws and ownership.
To better explain needed change, I’ll compare today’s problems with workforce safety and health, a field I’ve been involved with for 45 years. Exchange “workforce” for “society.”
For those in the field of occupational safety and health, ensuring our employer or client provides safe, healthy working environments mandated by law, we rely on rules and regulations. Those of us who have done this for some time realize injuries, illness and lack of compliance will still rear their ugly heads. Human behavior is one ingredient in life’s recipe that we (anyone but the one undertaking the wrongdoing) cannot control. This is the facility’s “culture,” or for this letter, today’s “social culture.”
Human or social culture is a system of shared assumptions, values and beliefs, which govern behavior.
For now, let’s ignore behavior derived from medical problems, physical or mental. Let’s address how behavior is triggered by influence.
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