Why do safety committees fail to improve workplace safety? Five practical lessons from The Committee That Acts by Kenneth Mqadi. Think about your last workplace safety meeting. When it ended, did anything change? In Kenneth Mqadi' s new book, a fictional committee at Masibambisane Packaging meets during a busy production week. A damaged access step near the dispatch office is on the minutes again. "Maintenance is aware," the chairperson says. A representative points out that employees are still using the step. "We will follow up." A week later, an employee asks what happened. The answer: "It was raised. We are waiting." Any OHS practitioner will recognise this. A hazard is reported, acknowledged with a nod, and back on the agenda next month. In The Committee That Acts , Kenneth Mqadi, author and director at SAGRIQUA, argues that a committee's value isn't that it exists. It is that it listens, decides and acts. At OHS Navigators we believe safet...