Balancing Organisational Safety Systems and Safety Culture - Issues and Challenges

Abstract

HSE professionals emphasised balancing the challenges and issues while integrating the safety systems and positive safety culture. The elements of the total safety culture interventions ought not to exist as a disjointed form in the organisation for the best results for the safety of manpower as well as business prosperity. Safety systems provide nothing more than a safety climate. At the same time, the safety culture interventions must move on with fast-tracking safety culture decisions. People need to feel psychologically safe to give optimum performances. The complicated human factors of safety and the complex human error in safety must be addressed by the corporates. Cultural safety and equitable care require workers migrated from diverse cultural backgrounds to be understood in their own cultural backdrop, language and communication so that any kind of racism or inequity is ruled out. The total safety culture framework integrates information across disjointed conceptualisations to clearly portray the dynamic nature of safety culture and the specific drivers of its development.

Keywords: Balancing, Safety, Systems, Safety Culture, Challenges, BBS

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