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Safety Culture Articles

Caring More Deeply About Safety  
How do we help our workers be safer? The answer, according to Mr. Mathis, is by focusing them on their best opportunities for improvement, challenging them to excel, and measuring their progress towards excellence.

8 Cultural Imperatives for Workplace Safety
Towers Watson-ISR has identified eight cultural drivers of workplace safety that deliver the greatest return on safety investment. This article from OHS Online explains each cultural element and provides a useful framework for making cultural improvements.

Safety Culture — 9 Factors that Defeat Controls
A study by the Institute for Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) refers to nine common weaknesses that can serve as as “warning flags” that can lead to serious incidents and degrade a safety culture.

Safety Culture Perception Survey
By definition, safety culture is difficult to measure. How does your safety culture measure up? Find out with this safety culture perception survey published in ASSE’s Professional Safety.

Workplace Safety — Does Your CEO “Get It”?
Safety culture starts at the top and then permeates down throughout the organization. Does your CEO “get it” like these do?