Understanding Safety Culture Maturity
Safety Culture Investing in your safety environment and practices is important to achieving safety compliance. In fact, it’s absolutely necessary. But when it comes to investing in your safety culture, environment and practices will only take you so far. To truly shift your safety culture, you must invest in your people. You may genuinely believe […]
Safety Citizenship: The Gold Standard of Safety Culture
Organisations need to invest in all four dimensions of safety culture to effectively manage risk and create a strong and positive safety culture. But what does good look like? And how do you get there? Safety citizenship is the gold standard of safety culture. It represents a significant opportunity for organisations to capitalise on their greatest asset—their […]
A Simple Model for Understanding Your Safety Culture
Safety culture is an organisations’ shared perceptions, attitudes, values and beliefs about safety in the workplace—essentially, ‘the way things are done around here’. And a strong safety culture doesn’t happen by chance. Your organisation’s safety culture also influences safety performance and is a significant factor in predicting the likelihood of safety incidents. Safety culture reflects […]
New Sentis Study Uncovers the State of Safety Culture Across Industry
Only 14% of organisational sites operate from a positive safety culture, according to a new study of 73 sites across agriculture, construction, government, healthcare, manufacturing, mining, oil and gas and utilities. For organisations whose sites fall into the remaining 86%, operating from a negative or unhelpful safety culture carries an increased risk of serious incidents […]
Measuring Safety Excellence: Lead vs Lag Indicators
In pursuit of safety excellence, businesses invest huge amounts of money, time and energy in safety improvement initiatives. However, relatively few can pinpoint the positive effect of these on their safety culture. So, how should you track the effectiveness of safety interventions and improvement in safety culture? Previously, focus has been on the reduction of lag […]
Is Your Safety Culture Helping or Hindering Compliance?
Traditionally, health and safety efforts have focused on the physical parts of an organisation. The environment in which people work, along with the tools, equipment, machinery and substances that are used to perform work, should be risk assessed and any hazardous conditions managed as effectively as possible. This requirement is enshrined in WHS legislation, both […]