Role in Developing an Effective Safety Culture

Management s Role in Developing an Effective Safety Culture 

let s review a list of principal management leadership traits we have seen effectively utilized throughout our careers in various industries and work environments. For practical purposes, we will focus only on a few of the more apparently critical attributes we have observed, which have helped to maintain a keen focus on the impact of leadership and the safety culture s management system. The list includes, but is not limited to, the following  

Adapted from French, Anne R., Achieving a Total Safety Culture Integrating Behavioral Safety into the Constmction Environment, Safety Performance Solutions, Presentation June 30,1999, AON Construction Division, Atlanta, reproduced with permission. 

As we continue, we need to examine the barriers that prevent a culture from occurring. Refer to Table 4-2 for a summary of the management attitudes and behaviors that affect a safety culture. 

Ask yourself these questions What would happen if an airline pilot took off from an airport without a written flight plan How about a truck 

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An example of the role(s) that primate research has played is in the development of the poliomyelitis vaccines. Although many studies on poliomyelitis in humans were conducted in the late nineteenth century, the cause of the disease remained unknown until scientists succeeded in transmitting the virus to monkeys in 1908. There followed many years of research with primates until scientists were able, in the early 1950s, to grow the virus in human cell cultures and development of a vaccine became possible. At that point in time, in order to ensure the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines, tests were conducted with monkeys. Furthermore, in order to produce the vaccines in pure form in great quantities, it was necessary to use kidney tissue taken from monkeys. Today, an alternative to the use of monkey kidneys has been developed for the production of the vaccine. 

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