One reason is that managers often fail to properly understand safety culture, let alone how to improve upon it.  Some consider it too abstract a concept, tending to concentrate on tangible and operational day-to-day health and safety management.  Others may have advanced their safety approach by comprehensively addressing operational functions, as well as more strategic level issues, but still have an ill-defined understanding of what knits these aspects together: a good safety culture.  This shortcoming will ultimately reduce their overall effectiveness in the battle to improve safety.

I found this article to have some good ideas on safety culture issues. Although it applies to the oil and gas industry, you will find the same issues in any sector that you may study.

Safety culture is the number one indicator of successful injury prevention programs, as discussed in a previous blog post.

But what is [[[safety culture]]] and how do you know where yours stacks up?

According to OSHA, “Safety cultures consist of shared beliefs, practices, and attitudes that exist at an establishment. Culture is the atmosphere created by those beliefs, attitudes, etc., which shape our behavior.”

I like to provide other views on safety culture, as there are lot of good written material via the internet that promotes a safety culture. I hope that you enjoy this article. I encourage you to leave comments, either on my site or visit the ergo plus site and support what is posted.

In the mean time, you can check out my YouTube videos where I discuss elements of a safety culture as I see it. Please provide feedback and comments!

This one from LifeHacker is simple yet seems to move from lists to action. James Roughton is using a similar process effectively as can be shown by his development and posting of a wide array of videos and topics over at his Safetycultureplus blog - It's a simple yet powerful technique - a really good idea that you should check out. If we apply it to the safety process, what might we accomplish?

Here is a nice way of managing your time. Especially now since the increase usage of the smartphone.