Safety Culture

A Safety Culture defines your norm and values about safety. It influences people’s decision-making.

Benefits of a Fine-Tuned Safety Culture

A simple, well-defined Safety Culture impacts how people make decisions about safety and risk:

  • Makes your people proactive about safety, not reactive. That means you can prevent incidents long before they happen, keeping your people safe and productive.
  • Empowers your people to learn and grow from good decisions and mistakes. They replace the blame game and distrust with confidence.
  • Improves people’s follow-through to actually think about risk and make safer decisions. When the safety norm and values are crystal clear, people connect dots to use the safety processes that can impact safety margins.

How to Define a Safety Culture
for Your Business

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.

Safety Norm

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

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:

  • Being Proactive about risk and safety instead of reactive.
  • Encouraging people to Learn and grow from their operating experience instead of defaulting to blame and excuses.
  • Follow-Through, or executing a Safety Margin for the work.

These values create clear expectations for decision-making from leaders, managers, supervisors, and employees.

Takeaway

You can improve your safety results by defining a Safety Culture. Define a simple safety norm and action-oriented safety values.

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Objectives

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:

  1. Learn how to implement a Safety Culture.
  2. Develop your Safety Culture elements and documentation.
  3. Generate visible leadership to launch your Safety Culture.

Offerings

We offer a package to guide you with improving your Safety Culture:

  • Implementation Action Plan
  • Perception Survey
  • Safety Culture Workshop
  • Health & Safety Policy
  • Written Practice
  • Monthly Messaging Schedule
  • 2 Coaching Sessions

We can design a custom service plan to help implement a Safety Culture, building a foundation to improve your safety results.