Safety Culture
What influences it?
How do you measure it?
What is it?
Complaceny #
The value put on safety in a business
How employees feel about safety
Commitment #
(Organisational) Climate
Management systems/procedures
Safety climate
Health and safety climate maturity model
Safety climate
Maturity of safety management system
Rules, processes and procedures
Step by step instructions on how to create a safety culture #
Is there a link to safety performance?
Comprises basis assumptions espoused, values and artefacts
Attitudes #
Alternate indicator - safety climate #
'The way we do things around here'
Staff safety culture survey
Roadmap to safety culture excellence
Employee behaviours #
Disregard for process compliance
Not intervening in 'at risk' behaviours
Distraction
Lack of reporting
Humanistic
Encouraging environment
How safety messages are communicated to employees
Creation of a learning environment
Creating an ownership and trusting environment #
Genuine care for people #
Influence on investigation processes
Bonuses/incentives influencing outcomes
Enforcing or not compliance to policies, procedures
'Turning a blind eye'
Provision of resources
Safety system
Safety culture maturity model
Informed, reporting, just, flexible and learning culture
Flawed processes - eg. focus on personal vs process safety
Tolerance of deviations
Setting clear expectations
Capability and competency of leaders regarding safety management
'Engine that propels the system towards the goal'
How people work when no-one is watching
Safety should be a value, not a priority
Strong organisational culture #
Ongoing measurement and evaluation process/auditing
Rules, thinking, embedded behaviours, philosophies, values etc
Field presence, 'walk arounds'
Collective effort of an organisation regarding safety
Safety statistics; injuries and fatality prevention efforts
What can you physically observe on the ground?
Effort put into maintaining a safety system
Safety training and qualifications of leaders
Integrated safety culture model
the 'mood of an organisation'
Organisational culture diagnostic instrument
Correlation between safety management system effectiveness
'the vibe'
An outcome of organisational culture actions/effort
The economy - safety costs money