Transcript Chapter 4

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Chapter
4
Promoting a positive
health and safety culture
Promoting a positive
health and safety culture
After reading this chapter you should
be able to:
1. describe the concept of health and safety
culture and its significance in the management of
health and safety in an organization
2. identify indicators which could be used to
assess the effectiveness of an organization’s
health and safety culture and recognize factors
that could cause its deterioration
3. identify the factors which influence safety
related behaviour at work
4. identify methods which could be used to
improve the health and safety culture of an
organization
5. outline the internal and external influences on
an organization’s health and safety standards.
A culture in which the right to a safe and
healthy working environment is respected
at all levels, where government, employers
and workers actively participate in securing
a safe and healthy working environment
through a system of defined rights,
responsibilities and duties, and where the
principle of prevention is accorded the
highest priority.
Figure 1
ILO defines health and safety culture
Incident Rate
“Safety is, without doubt,
the most crucial
investment we can make.
And the question is not
what it costs us, but what
it saves.”
(Robert E. McKee Chairman and Managing
Director or Conoco (UK) Ltd)
Figure 4.1
Safety as an investment
Figure 4.2
Heinrich’s accidents/incidents ratios
Figure 4.3
Well designed work
station for sitting or standing
Figure 4.4
Poor working conditions
Figure 4.5
Setting Goals and motivating people
Figure 4 .6a
Visual perception –are
the lines the same length?
b) Faces or vase?
c) Face or saxophone player?
Figure 4.6 b & c
Visual perception
Figure 4.7
Types of human failure
Figure 8
Health and Safety training
needs and opportunities
Figure 4.9
safety culture
Internal Influences on
Figure 4.10
safety culture
External Influences on