safety culture

This article explains 10 focus necessities and provides a guide on gathering perspectives from key stakeholders to prioritize an improvement plan or create a more robust safety improvement strategy.

This article describes how leadership involvement in office and site visits can support and sustain an outstanding safety culture and outlines added benefits of conducting office and site visits.

The workplace has changed since 2020. Previous safety strategies are now obsolete. We must change our approach to meet the new realities of today. If we don't, anticipate broader organizational challenges in the days ahead.

Where health, safety, and environmental efforts are focused must create value for the organization.

Creating and cultivating a safety culture is one of the most effective ways to protect employees and ensure a safe workplace. But building a safety culture can be difficult. It takes time, effort, and commitment from everyone in the organization.

Ryan Sloan, safety manager for Birchcliff Energy, explains how two separate tragedies spur him on to change the way workers think.

Many leaders commit to the aspiration of no harm to people, but they may need help on the substance and actions that will make a difference. The authors share their insights gained from decades of robust experience in safety culture and performance improvement and where it succeeds or fails.

Culture, not controls, will drive the next phase of industry safety evolution, said presenters at a recent HSE conference.

The normalization of deviance is a major organizational cultural issue that is modeled and enabled by poor leadership and filters down through the organization with disastrous consequences for safety and operations.

Safety technologies, procedures, policies, and programs have all evolved, yet there still remains a lot of work to do in many industries and workplaces to transform safety behaviors and attitudes.