Safety culture environment

Bjerkan, A. M. (2010). Health, environment, safety culture and climate— analyzing the relationships to occupational accidents. Journal of Risk Research, 73(4), 445-477. 

Harvey, J., Bolam, H. D., Gregory, D., Erdos, G. (2001). The effectiveness of training to change safety culture and attitudes within a highly regulated environment. Personnel Review, 30, 615-646. 

Organizations vary considerably in terms of how they manage safety. Thus, the expectations of management safety behavior formed from one workplace may have little basis in reality in another workplace. At this point, it is also worth noting the vast literature on safety culture and safety climate. Safety culture stems from the organization and is the top-down safety values, beliefs, and norms, while safety climate is more accurately defined as the employee s perceptions of how various aspects of the working environment impact on their safety (see Bjerkan 2010, for a... 

It is perhaps reassuring to boldly state and accept that safety culture can t be measured, and more fundamentally neither can safety itself. This relieves us of the need to develop ever more complex measures of safety, more convoluted forms and inspection sheets, more detailed policies and procedures, and the bureaucracy that often sits alongside such paper-based approaches that reflect normative concepts of safety culture that don t really work in practice. Instead, this version of safety culture enables us to better prioritise the individual and social aspects that are inherently involved. How people understand safety is important how it is developed, associated and shared by those interacting in the work environment, what they consider significant in their actions and interactions. But we must remain mindful of the fact that this is not something that can be measured either. It is people that contribute and ultimately create the changeable and complicated version of safety culture in practice found on our construction sites. 

Management safety culture means the employer s commitment and leadership in making a safer workplace environment. In this research, our empirical measure of management safety culture is a Likert scale index of responses to the following issues ... 

The primary reason for, and the added value from audits comes from acting on the information they provide in a timely manner. The actions aim to strengthen the effectiveness of safety instrumented systems, for example, to help minimize the risk of employees or members of the public being injured or killed, contribute to improving safety culture, contribute to prevent any avoidable release of substance into the environment. 

The Framework Regulations provides exactly that a framework for the offshore safety regulation. It defines the common scope of application for all the regulations, their common purpose and definitions, who is to be responsible for complying with all the regulations, and the common main principles for health, safety and environment, including what is labelled health, safety and environment culture (Sect. 15). Within this framework, the four regulations spell out in some detail what is required in each of the specific areas. 

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