28 Keys for Creating a Safety Culture

28 tried and true methods of ensuring the right culture of safety in your organisation

Developing a strong safety culture will have a great impact on the reduction of incidents. The development of a safety culture should be the top priority for all managers and supervisors.

This is an introduction to the key points of creating a safety culture that we have tried in our own company as well as helping institute in others.

What is a safety culture?

A safety culture is the shared beliefs, practices and attitudes in an organisation. Culture is the environment created by those beliefs, practices and attitudes which shape our behaviour. An organisations safety culture is the result of a number of factors such as:

• Management and employee norms, assumptions and beliefs
• Management and employee attitudes
• Values, myths, stories
• Policies and procedures
• Supervisor priorities, responsibilities and accountability
• Production and bottom line pressures v's quality issues
• Actions or lack of action to correct unsafe behaviours
• Employee training and motivation
• Employee and management involvement or 'buy-in'

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