In order to be able to evaluate a companies’ safety culture, 20 dimensions have been selected that have a significant influence on the unconscious values, processes and behavioral patterns with regard to occupational safety.
Many of the 20 diemsnions are interdependent, so that a sustained improvement in one dimension will also result in an improvement in other diemsnions. When selecting specific diemsnion as area for improvement, care must be taken to ensure that the specific measures can be integrated into the existing internal processes. It is also of crucial importance to align the measures to the previously defined ‘desired’ level of safety culture in order to avoid the company being overwhelmed by the ‘planned’ change process. Internal cultural change processes are long-term projects and cannot be integrated into an existing corporate culture ‘overnight’.
The procedure for evaluating the status of the safety culture is described in section Safety Culture State Review Index calculation.
The 20 dimensions that are mostly influencing a company-specific safety culture, are listed at the following table. Please click to each diemsnion to learn the meaning of the cultural state and how to discuss this topic within your orgaisation.
The four states of Safety Culture
Carrying out a Safety Culture State Review Survey
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