What is safety culture?

Safety culture is an organisation’s beliefs and attitudes regarding safety, its place and importance in the organisation, and affects how safely people in the organisation behave. It is essentially ‘the way we do things around here’.  Safety culture influences the environment in which people work and in which barriers operate.

World-class health, safety and environment (HSE) performance requires the involvement of everyone in the organisation, from top to bottom, utilising knowledge at all levels, and fully integrating HSE within everyday behaviour.  It involves ‘winning hearts and minds’ to improve the safety culture of the organisation. Winning hearts and minds is about getting everyone to work safely, not because they’ve been told to, but because that is the way they want to work and that is the way they know how to work.  It is about making safety a fully integrated part of working behaviour, and in the process easier to manage.

In this webinar from Catch Technical, we will look at the Hearts and Minds behavioural safety toolkit designed to facilitate cultural change within organisations.  It is intended to help organisations to improve their HSE performance by showing the ‘route to the top’ of the HSE culture ladder and providing the process and tools to get everyone involved and to facilitate behavioural change. The Hearts and Minds toolkit enables you to create a truly proactive and generative approach to HSE management.

Led by Lorraine Braben, we will discuss:

• What we mean by Safety Culture
• The Hearts and Minds programme, tools and techniques
• How Catch Technical can support your Safety Culture development

When: Thursday 30th April at 11am.

To register for this free webinar hosted by CATCH Technical, please email jill.mooney@catchuk.org

 

Lorraine Braben

Lorraine is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF). In addition, she is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and qualified HR practitioner and trainer, with over 30 years’ experience in the process industries; ten of which have been dedicated to applying Human Factors thinking in an Upper Tier COMAH environment. Poor culture and business practices can unwittingly influence behaviour and impact on safe operation of plant and equipment. Lorraine has seen how decisions made with the best of intentions may not always deliver the results expected and how understanding the human element of safety can improve ‘the way we do things around here’.