Importance Of Safety Culture

Introduction to Safety Culture
A safety culture is an organization-wide advancement towards safety management. A safety culture is the final result of mutual efforts toward attitudes, value and proficiency of an organization’s safety program.
Safety cultures comprises of mutualthinking, attitudes and practices that exist in an organization. Culture is the environmentshaped by thesemutual thinking practices and attitudes. Asafety culture is the outcome of following factors:
• Management and worker standards, presumptions, and beliefs
• Management and worker attitudes
• Values, misconceptions, and stories
• Policies and standard operating procedures
• Supervisor main concerns, obligations, and responsibility
• Production and bottom-line demands compared to top quality issues
• Action or deficiency of activity to appropriate risky behaviors
• Employee coaching and commitment
• Employee participation or buy-in
ImplementingSafety Culture

Here are few elements to consider when starting on an effort to put into action a culture of safety:
1. Leadership Must Lead
2. Document Procedures
3. Effectively Communicate Procedures
4. Train, Train, Train
5. Establish Accountability
6. Reward Success
In almost every organization, we implement a safety culture by:
• Having company lead roles i.e., directors, general managers, managers commit to being safe because cultural change always begins at the top. If employees observeunresponsiveness to safety among the leadership team, they will