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Safety Culture

Safety culture has been described as “the way we do things around here”. It’s a difficult concept to grasp exactly as it is easily confused with behaviours (which is what individuals actually do), attitude (which is the individual and collective psychological feeling towards compliance with safety procedures), and safety climate – which is a snapshot of the culture.

Culture, behaviour and attitude, are all inter-related and changes in one influences the others. There are a number of tools available to measure safety culture, which one to use will depend on the attitude and current culture so its difficult without experience to decide which system to use. We can provide independent impartial advice on measurement and improvement tools having used them in a variety of circumstances, and provide administrative resource to deliver the safety culture survey, including identifying the most effective groupings of staff to obtain data from, assistance in interpretation of the results, and suggest methods of improving culture.

Our experience includes HSE, RSSB and Keil Centre (Safety Culture Maturity Model) Survey tools, use of both Du Pont behavioural change methods, and bespoke behavioural methods. We can also help clients to produce their own behavioural change programme using the most appropriate tools for their circumstances and parts of their organisation.