Organisational life

A second implication is that good or poor safety cnltnre is not a fixed properly of a given organisation. Rather, safety cnltnre can be seen as an ongoing achievement - it is maintained in a particnlar state by the interplay between the variables identified earlier. Behind the resnlt of a safety cnltnre assessment lie the organisation s beliefs, experiences, relationships, stractures and practices. In the next section of this chapter, we will discnss research on how one manifestation of organisational life - job characteristics - may inform safety cnltnre. 

The goals, priorities and activities are manifest in job characteristios -those features of organisational life and work that direcdy affect its members. Therefore, one line of enquiry within safety culture research is how it is affected by job characteristics. We presented evidence to suggest that such a relationship exists within British community pharmacies. In basic terms, safely climate varies according to the levels of psychological and physical demands and the personal and material resources available to meet these demands. 

Reiss, A. (1984) Selecting Strategies of Social Control over Organisational Life , in Hawkins and Thomas (1984[Pg.359]

International Organisation for Standardisation Japanese Institute for Standards Organisation Life cycle assessment(s)... 

Machines are not perfect entities. Any aircraft at any given time will have a number of defects on it, waiting to be fixed. For investigators, this is a normal part of organisational life. Organisational activities are designed to accommodate and account for normal error and routine... 

Another way of saying this is that operational incidents are used by investigators as opportunities to re-examine, re-codify and re-engineer organisational practices incidents are used to generate affordances to reflect on and account for current organisational practices. In short, incidents are used to do epistemic work. Brief moments of organisational life are bracketed and turned into objects of collective and productive... 

How computer-supported work fits or misfits office or organisational life is not addressed in the model. 

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