Safety Culture
A Safety Culture defines your norm and values about safety. It influences people’s decision-making.
A simple, well-defined Safety Culture impacts how people make decisions about safety and risk:
Safety Culture has different meanings among many industries. With over 50 definitions and models of Safety Culture available, pinpointing how to define it for your business can be challenging.
A Safety Culture has two elements: a safety norm and safety values. Combined, these elements influence people’s decision-making about safety and risk.
Think of a safety norm as your overarching expectation to drive people’s decisions and actions. A clearly-defined safety norm that is easy for people to remember works best.
The safety norm you can apply is: Achieve a safety margin while people work.
This expectation is straightforward for both management and employees. It provides clarity that the right decision and action is working with a safety margin.
Safety values are your core beliefs that further drive the norm, or influence people’s decisions and actions.
Our data shows three action-oriented safety values are common among our clients with excellent safety results:
These values create clear expectations for decision-making from leaders, managers, supervisors, and employees.
You can improve your safety results by defining a Safety Culture. Define a simple safety norm and action-oriented safety values.
When you engage with us, we can help you to define a Safety Culture that guides how your people make decisions about safety and risk.
You can complete these objectives:
We offer a package to guide you with improving your Safety Culture:
We can design a custom service plan to help implement a Safety Culture, building a foundation to improve your safety results.