What Sets the Culture

Certain cultures do have safety as one of their major constituent values, and not a priority. Other cultures make it very clear that safety is unimportant. In the latter, almost nothing will work meetings will be boring, and job hazard analyses (JHAs) are perceived only as paperwork [3,4]. 

Other things—for example, production, quality, new equipment, or other business opportunities  

As you can see, a culture is defined by an infinite number of things. Petersen only listed a few. It is more important to understand what the culture is than to understand why it is that way [3,4]. 

We have suggested that culture dictates which program elements will work and which will not. Culture dictates results, and what the incident record will be. This is true no matter whether we look at frequency or severity [3,4]. 

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