[SystemSafety] Safety Culture

[Andy Ashworth]

		Paul,
That aspect of safety culture addresses work place employee safety. The company I currently work for have a reasonably strong culture with respect to such safety; with respect to funcational system safety, however, their processes followed are totally different matter. If design engineers are not systematically considering functional safety during their work, I would suggest that a company does not have a good safety cultue. A strong safety culture to me is one where safety is considered during all stages of a system’s deployment is considered systematically, including ultimate third-party end-use, and not just focused on the employees of the design/construction organisation.
Andy

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On 10/12/2017 at 10:16 AM, "Peter Bernard Ladkin" <ladkin at causalis.com> wrote:
>
>So, a couple of short questions.
>
>1. How do you tell if a company has a "safety culture"?
>2. How do you tell that this "safety culture" is causally 
>effective in the company fulfilling
>attribute X?
>3. What are those attributes X of companies that correlate with 
>safety?
>4. How do you know that your answer to 3 is right?

>From the website of a company I heard about. I was told of one of their
large dam repair projects which involved over 800,000 Man-hours of
effort during which they had no fatalities (a bit rare for big dam projects).

<https://www.kiewit.com/our-commitment/safety/>

Other organisations, I have been with, where they also take safety seriously
have the goal of Zero Injured Persons. This is achieved through whole
company training in behavioural safety and employee empowerment (where
there is no retribution for stopping a job about a safety concern). In such
organisations they also ask their employees to highlight if they think their
colleagues are suffering any form of stress so that help can be offered.
Also the willingness to provide specific safety training in relevant task
related topics.

Just some of the useful indicators.

Regards

Paul E. Bennett IEng MIET
Systems Engineer
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