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Mind Map by andywilce78, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by andywilce78
over 11 years ago
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Significance of Safety culture
- The safety culture of an organisation is the way that all the people within the organisation think and feel about H & S
- It can be defined as shared attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviours relating to H & S
- Strong link between safety culture and H & S performance
- The safety culture of an organisation can be assessed by looking at indicators
- Indicators include
- Accidents
- Sickness rates
- Absenteeism
- Staff turnover
- Worker complaints
- Worker complaints
- Staff turnover
- Absenteeism
- Sickness rates
- Accidents
- Indicators include
- The safety culture of an organisation can be assessed by looking at indicators
- Strong link between safety culture and H & S performance
- It can be defined as shared attitudes, values, beliefs and behaviours relating to H & S
- Positive culture
- Majority of workers think and feel that H & S is important
- Strong policy and leadership from the top
- Everyone works safely because they want to
- People work safely and there will be fewer accidents and ill health
- People work safely and there will be fewer accidents and ill health
- Everyone works safely because they want to
- Strong policy and leadership from the top
- Majority of workers think and feel that H & S is important
- Negative culture
- Majority of workers think that H & S is not important
- Poorly educated in H & S and see it as unnecessary or not important
- Lack of clear direction and leadership from management
- Workers behave unsafely because they do not know any better
- Workers behave unsafely because they do not know any better
- Lack of clear direction and leadership from management
- Poorly educated in H & S and see it as unnecessary or not important
- Majority of workers think that H & S is not important
- Influence of peers
- Established by the more influential members of the group
- If a group is working safely then peer group pressure will keep most people in that group in line
- If a group is working unsafely then peer group pressure will force more workers to work unsafely
- the behaviour of peer groups exert on workers is a good indicator of safety culture
- In an organisation with a negative culture peer group pressure is driving unsafe behaviours and this has not been challenged by management
- In an organisation with a negative culture peer group pressure is driving unsafe behaviours and this has not been challenged by management
- the behaviour of peer groups exert on workers is a good indicator of safety culture
- If a group is working unsafely then peer group pressure will force more workers to work unsafely
- If a group is working safely then peer group pressure will keep most people in that group in line
- Established by the more influential members of the group
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