Organizational culture prevention

Several references were made in Chapter 3, Serious Injury Prevention, to human errors as the causal factors for accidents. And it was said that many serious injuries result from recurring but potentially avoidable human errors, and that organizational, cultural, technical, and management systems deficiencies often lead to those errors. Emphasizing human error reduction above the worker level, although proposed many years ago as a preventive measure, is not prominent in the work of safety professionals. 

One element of safety management is to look at the behavior of employees and the organizational culture. Everyone has a responsibility for safety and should participate in management system efforts. Modern organization safety has progressed from safety by compliance to a more appropriate concept of prevention by planning. Reliance on compliance could translate to after-the-fact hazard detection that does not identify organizational errors that are often the contributors to incidents [5]. 

Schein, E.H. Organizational Culture and Leadership A Dynamic View. San Francisco Jossey-Bass, 1995. Schelp, L. 1988. The Role of Organizations in Community Participation - Prevention of Accidental Injuries in a Rural Swedish Municipality, Soc Sci Med 26(11) 1087-1093. 

DNLM 1. Health Facilities. 2. Safety Management. 3. Leadership. 4. Medical Errors—prevention control. 5. Organizational Culture. 6. Patient Care. WX 185 K91t 2009]... 

The first main challenge is to prevent persistent and harmful employee conflicts - that is, the balance between diversity and similarity (or organizational norms ) can in some cases lean too far toward diversity. This implies that the differences in perspectives, behaviours and work concepts become dysfunctional and lead to culture clashes (Loden and Rosener, 1991). The manifestation of these involves misunderstandings, feelings of threat... 

Diaz-cabera, D., Hernandez-Femaud, E., Isla-Diaz, R. (2007). An evaluation of a new instmment to measure organizational safety culture values and practises. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 39, 1202-1211. 

Health care s fear-based culture has thwarted exploration of weaknesses in the system s work processes, causing the industry to lose rich information about how individuals, technical work, and organizational processes interact. When accidents and near misses are thought of as the symptoms of an underlying problem, they become sources of information and valuable tools to understand how a system functions. Accidents and near misses are useful tools that help define the margins of risk and safety and help us to learn about how harm can be prevented (Amalberti, 2001). 

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