Safety culture generative

A safety culture is a culture that constantly seeks and learns from failure and also from anticipating failure, using mental simulations of possible failure scenarios. Figure 4.1 adapts the work of Westrum (1992) and oudines three different organizational cultures. These cultures are differentiated by how they use information pathological culture, a bureaucratic culture, and a generative culture. A culture of safety is generative relative to its pursuit of information and its use of information. 

Safety culture is generative, constantly uneasy, seeking, learning, changing. 

Generative-proactive, i.e. top-level commitment to improve safety culture, absence of complacency. 

One important foundation stone is to get the key institutions within road transport (road builders, traffic managers, vehicle makers, transport planners, etc.) to develop generative safety cultures internally. While Safe System thinking requires institutions such as road and traffic authorities to accept a level of accountability far greater than ever applied historically, this still falls fundamentally short of the generative safety cultures that can be found in the industrial field. 

The research evidence is clear. Proactive and generative types of culture lead to the best industrial safety records. What type of culture can we see in our governments and transport institutions around traffic safety ... 

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