♦♦ CULTURE & SAFETY PERFORMANCE ♦♦ | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Apr 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In this series, I share with you my thoughts on Why Safety is an Issue for Most Companies, or, putting it differently, Things we Must Address if we Want to Improve our Safety Performance. This month, I address one aspect of culture, namely our individual values and how they affect our behaviour and impact on safety culture. |
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One of the main problems with safety is that most people still suffer from the “Speedkop” (Traffic cop) syndrome – complying out of fear of being caught and fined. You need to move people from GOTO to WANTO do the safe thing. People need to have safety as a value, i.e. where safety is no longer in the head, but in the heart. If safety is in people’s heart, you can throw away the ‘rule book’, do away with the ‘supervisor’ and stop policing. People need to understand and accept that it’s not that it’s hard to do the right (safe) thing, it’s that it’s hard to know what the right thing is. Once they know what is right, when they know, they’ll find it’s hard not to do it. Safety is a value when:
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