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Safety Culture Articles

Cargill’s Illinois Pork Plant Celebrates 6 Million Hours Without a Lost-Time Injury 
To celebrate this milestone, Cargill is providing a prime rib dinner for the 2,000+ team members that work at this Illinois pork plant. “We confront injury risk by acknowledging its potential and weaving prevention into our cultural fabric,” said plant general manager Steve Pirkle.

How to Build an Excellent Safety Culture 
This page on OSHA’s website provides guidance on how safety culture can impact your company, and management processes typically ripe for improvement.

7 Keys for Creating a Safety Culture 
Aubrey Daniels is a long-established leader in the health and safety field. Here, he provides what is needed by leaders and employees to ingrain a safety culture into the fabric of their organization.

You Can’t “Fix” a Broken Safety Culture 
According to Joe Stevens’ post on the EHS Today Leadership Perspectives blog, “Companies need to realize that a strong safety culture requires an ongoing commitment – it’s not something that you just “fix.”

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.