Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Santis, Cinzia De
• Hudson, Patrick
• Lawrie, Matthew
• Shelton, Cory
• Rose, Dave
• Bergen, Ard van
• Chadwick-Jones, Diane

Titel

Safety culture: 'Black art' or 'Paradigm shift'?

Ist Teil von

• Loss prevention bulletin, 2008-02 (199), p.25

Ort / Verlag

Rugby: Institution of Chemical Engineers

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A strong safety culture per se is not enough to deliver an outstanding performance, but needs to be in place though to underpin process safety, systems and engineering. A weak safety culture can be evident through the actions and inactions of personnel at all levels of the organization no matter how robust the systems and the engineering are in that organization. Academic research, the high-risk industries and governmental agencies have all identified safety culture as one of the key root causes of incidents. Many efforts have been made to understand and influence safety culture due to its well-established relevance in the overall performance of organizations. Although simply carrying out the safety culture assessment helps raise the awareness and enables a conversation around the safety culture in the organization, the most critical phase of the cycle is related to the improvement plan. The importance of the global approach is emphasized by having a cross culture -- cross business operating model.