Internal influences on safety culture

In addition to those forces that are outside an organisation there are obviously huge influences within an organisation that do have a significant impact upon the development and maintenance of the safety culture. 

The culture of an organisation is sometimes described as the way we do things around here . 

Management can demonstrate their commitment to safety in the workplace through a variety of means including  

The need for commitment at senior levels Is ongoing. All too often safety procedures fall Into disuse because of management neglect or due to other business pressures taking precedence such as, for example, setting unreasonable production or financial targets. 

Of course the consequences in less hazardous workplaces of the commercial pressure to maintain production are fortunately nowhere near as dramatic however, lives are lost every year by managers and the workforce coming under pressure to sacrifice safety for production. 

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