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OHS Consultancy ServicesSafety CultureWhat sort of safety culture do you have at your workplace? Use the following guidelines to prompt your thinking:PATHOLOGICAL: In the pathological workplace, management and/or workers care less about safety than not being caught for breaching health and safety requirements. Safe working is considered ‘common sense’, rules are there to be broken; safety costs us our valuable time and money REACTIVE: This is where we take notice and do something to make things better every time we have an accident, we learn from our mistakes to prevent them (hopefully) from happening again CALCULATIVE: In this culture we blindly follow all safety steps, even though we disagree with them, or think they could be improved. We do it because the rules tell us to. PROACTIVE: We continuously try to improve and work on the problems that we still find. We actively seek weaknesses in the way we manage safety, report and fix them GENERATIVE: In this type of workplace, the health and safety value is internalised as integral beliefs. Workers and management believe in safety as part of the way we do business, not just as rules to follow. Each and every employee knows and cherishes both their own safety and that of their fellow workers. The ideal safety culture contains risk aware workers who always consider the health and safety implications of everything they do. We can assess the safety culture of your workplace and help design and implement interventions that may help improve it. |
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