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It is therefore essential to develop comprehensive safeguards around any new technological developments to establish a strong safety culture and ensure that our patients always receive the best possible, safe care. These responsibilities fall both to IT suppliers and to the healthcare organisations that implement the solutions. 

Although the party and the state has established a safety first, prevention first, comprehensive management of safe production approach to the development of the Mine Safety Act, (Lin 2008) Coal Act, Coal Mine Safety Supervision Ordinance until a series of policies, laws, management departments and business units have done a lot of practical work, have a lot to improve and enhance China s labor protection and production conditions, in order to protect the safety and health of workers in production and construction, safety culture theory, and promoting social production and construction development. However, China s coal enterprises overall understanding of safety culture and the arts and corporate safety culture in construction due to inadequate attention to work-... 

The intrinsic safety of the produce of enterprise security, safety of human nature, the people and objects and the combination, in order to build a production safety accident defenses. Safety Culture human security principles (Luo Lin 2010) in enterprise is indicated in Figure 1. Objective of the safety culture in construction is to create the intrinsically safe standard of the intrinsically safe always wanted to secure safety awareness, everywhere you want to secure the safety attitude, conscientiously study the safety of security awareness, comprehensive security capabilities reality do to secure the safety of operations, everything into the safety security purposes. 

There are many grey (overlapping) areas between all three areas of control. Some upstream controls have an impact on downstream and midstream controls, and vice versa. Building a safety culture involves npstream, midstream, and downstream actions, activities, and measuranents. It ensures a comprehensive approach to risk reduction that focuses on all aspects of a structured approach to a safety systan. 

If we will enhance safety culture and standardize employee safety behavior, it cannot leave the application of behavior-based safety management tools. The behavior-based safety management tools are an important means that is to effectively promote the safety culture of enterprise. At present, in SINOPEC comprehensive apvplication of HSE observation tools, its core is to conduct field observation and analysis and communication, to interfere with the way or intervention, make people know the dangers of unsafe behavior, prevent and eliminate imsafe behavior. 

Of conrse, this approach is based on the assumption that safety culture correlates with safety outcomes. Therefore, it is of critical importance to confirm the cnltnre-ontcome link, which is one of the requirements for a safety culture scale, understood as criterion validity - a more comprehensive summary of the required properties can be found in other literature (e.g. Itoh et al. 2012). For this applied purpose of safety culture, this chapter specifically looks at dimensions of safety culture, how to measure safety outcomes, and the safety culture-outcome link through an examination of case studies, primarily drawn from Japanese hospitals. Before stating these issues in detail, we will, in the rest of this section, briefly argue notions of safety culture (and safety climate). 

Timmel, J., Kent, P.S., Holzmueller, C.G., Paine, L., Schulick, R.D. andPronovost, P.J. 2010. Impact of the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) on safety culture in a surgical inpatient unit. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 36, 252-60. 

In hindsight, a poor Safety Culture is an apparent overarching contributor to the Texas City Incident. A number of specific CSB key findings supported that allega-tioa It is necessary to understand the level, depth, and detail of this comprehensive... 

Just five months into the BP refinery investigation, the CSB issued an urgent safety recommendation to the BP Global Executive Board of Directors. The Directors were instmcted to commission an independent panel to assess and to report on the effectiveness of BP North America s corporate oversight of safety management systems at its refineries. BP was also strongly urged to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of BP s corporate safety culture. 

Figure 16.2 A well-groomed safety culture has been determined to be equally as or more important than a comprehensive technology built process safety management system.

The comprehensive book Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (RBPS) [9] sponsored by the CCPS describes twelve features essential to implementing and nmturing safety culture fundamentals in an organization s PSM system. 

Provide Continuous Monitoring of Performance is the final safety culture feature in the comprehensive CCPS book Guidelines for Risk Based Process Safety (KBPS) [9], The focus is leading and lagging indicators of a process safety culture (see Fig. 16.7). 

Although many safety issues have gained recognition in the shared workplaces and many tools and methods have been developed (especially for contractors in con-stmction sites), there are still many HSEQ and security threats related to supplier s management in global business environment. The whole supply chain needs to be considered and a comprehensive safety culture in shared workplace needs to be established. If company seeks to perform higher than average in the terms of HSEQ, they must ensure of corporate social responsibility and sustainable processes. HSEQ AP can be one method to support that purpose. 

Involving all employees in the management system is one of the most effective approaches you can take to develop an effective safety culture. The advantage to this participation is that it promotes employees awareness, instills an understanding of the comprehensive nature of a management system, and allows employees to own a part of this system. Employees make valuable problem solvers because they are closest to the action. No one knows the job better than the employee does. The following outline provides some ideas on how to deal with employee participation ... 

We will explore many options, opinions, and information from other credible safety experts. With the authors expertise in various industries and the other safety experts who contributed to the making of this book, you will have a comprehensive resource to develop a successful safety culture. 

HSE s Research Report RR367 provides a review of safety culture and safety climate literature. It is a comprehensive research report that highlights key aspects of a good safety culture, as outlined below ... 

Audit is an overview across the organisation of the entire risk management process. It should consider whether the objectives are sufficiently comprehensive to cover all hazards and their effects on all those persons (internal and external) who may be affected. It should include the objectives and management style of the directors and their influence on the safety culture of the organisation. It can use data from the review of performance to assess the strengths of the organisation and those aspects where improvement is necessary. 

Without a comprehensive approach to hazards and associated risk, the safety management system and the safety culture cannot be consistently maintained. Your guidance and expertise drives the process. The concerns over inherent operational hazards and the conditions where new hazards may be potentially created must be translated into terms that are understandable... 

The safety culture and safety management system are supported by effective, comprehensive education and training. The culture of an organization has a powerful influence over employee norms, habits, and behaviors as they complete their daily assignments and tasks. 

A safety management system assessment provides a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the safety culture. The effectiveness of the safety management system should reflect the real values and beliefs of the organization. A structured and detailed assessment should provide specific details about potential gaps and opportuiufies for further improvement, not just in the safety management system but in your orgaiuzation as well. 

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