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Safety Culture Articles

Evolving Your Safety Culture: Elements that Matter Most
Regardless of safety maturity, your safety culture goal should be to evolve, not create. Beliefs already exist. Behaviors are currently observable. The way we do things around here, why we do what we do, what is rewarded and what it takes to get ahead are all quickly apparent to individuals joining the rank and file. Unless you are starting a new company, bringing people together for the first time, your cultural focus on safety already exists, good, bad or indifferent. Now, how to improve it?

Creating a Safety Culture 
It has been observed at the OSHA VPP sites and confirmed by independent research that developing strong safety cultures have the single greatest impact on accident reduction of any process. It is for this single reason that developing these cultures should be top priority for all managers and supervisors.

25 Signs You Have an Awesome Safety Culture
By definition, safety culture is difficult to measure. How do you measure values, attitudes and beliefs? Following are 25 ways to tell whether or not you have an awesome safety culture. If you can answer yes to most of these, you’re doing great. Keep it up! If not, you have some work to do. Don’t be discouraged, culture change takes time and perseverance.

7 Keys for Creating a Safety Culture 
Each organization has or should have its own description of an ideal safety culture (based in values) however there are some elements that should be common to all.  Following are seven keys to an effective safety culture.

Safety Leader = Keeper of the Spring    
Safety leaders and those involved with workplace injury and illness prevention are indeed “The Keeper of the Spring”. Read this story and see if you don’t agree.