And Where is the Safety Culture in All This

The themes of the safety culture and the safety climate are among the most popular subjects for publications in scientific journals specialising in industrial risks (and risks in public services, transportation and medicine). Most of the articles and books propose tools to evaluate the culture, especially questionnaires. 

however, can truly be learned from these concepts in order to improve the safety of the system This question deserves to be asked, because the answer is rather uncertain. 

Cultures and Climates (of Change, Effectiveness and Safety), Multiple Areas of Ambiguity and Confusion 

There are seven characteristics that dominate the literature on cultures almost all of them raise fundamental questions about the usefulness of this concept for the purpose of improving safety. 

Cultures are about values (significant ideas) and norms (expected behaviours) which are (1) moral, shared by all the individuals in a given community (social mores, relationships between men and women, relationships with the truth), (2) ethical (unacceptable conditions for success or failure in the community), and (3) social (definition of success, hierarchical distances, relationship with uncertainty, roles and expertise). 

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