Safety Culture Change Management Principles

The safety aspects of management are a vital part of creating safety culture change, and the safety management system (SMS) is the vehicle for the change. Safety management can be summarized as follows  

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The following principles indicate the importance of management s role in safety culture change. The implementation of an SMS must have the full support of the executive management and must be driven by management at all levels. Management must also set the example, and as leaders, participate in the safety management system. 

Since the SMS is management driven, these basic safety management principles are vital for the implementation and maintenance of the system, without which safety culture change would be almost impossible. 

No safety management principle is more applicable to safety culture change than the principle of application. The more the safety culture is affected by the safety system interactions, the more it will be understood, accepted, and practiced. 

The safety culture action principle, behavior based attitudes theory and accident triangle principles work together to promote the change of zero accidents concept to zero accidents objective from three indispensable aspects of idea , action and methods , as is shown in Figure 4. Three principles commonly guide zero accidents concept, which is one of the key elements of safety culture, to strengthen enterprise safety management, prevent accidents and lessen accident rate, as follows ... 

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