Examining the relationship between safety culture maturity and safety performance of the mining industry

Stemn, Eric; Bofinger, Carmel; Cliff, David; Hassall, Maureen

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2018.12.008

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“…Although cultural maturity models can be seen to determine a status in movement or travel as an organization, the use of frameworks in the industry reflects a transactional approach to verify the presence of tangible cultural elements such as management commitment or information communication or abstract elements such as attitudes and behaviors (Stemn, Bofinger, Cliff, & Hassall, 2019). Frameworks are therefore designed to encompass the dimensions, traits, and attributes associated with a given organizational climate.…”

Section: Determining Cultural Maturitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Frameworks are therefore designed to encompass the dimensions, traits, and attributes associated with a given organizational climate. Frameworks, models, and assessment tools have been developed to determine cultural maturity for safety in the petrochemical sector (Goncalves Filho et al., 2010); gas operations (Behari, 2019); mining (Stemn et al., 2019); information systems management in hospitals (Carvalho et al., 2019); sustainability (Reefke & Sundaram, 2018), and food safety culture (Jespersen et al., 2016). Although some cultural maturity assessment tools only focus on positive cultural aspects, verifiable traits can be used to demonstrate both positive and negative aspects of organizational climate.…”

Section: Determining Cultural Maturitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Moving from a compliance‐based to an integrity‐based organizational climate in the food supply chain

Manning¹

2020

Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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Compliance is the act or status of complying with an imperative regulatory or normative requirement, that is, compliance means working within boundaries defined by contractual, social, or cultural standards. The aim of this narrative review is to use the food supply chain as a lens of enquiry to distinguish between compliance-based and integrity-based organizational climates and frame and rationalize why deviant behavior arises and how it can be identified. Contemporary theory is explored and critiqued using case studies to contextualize the challenge of organizations promoting supply chain compliance and at the same time recognizing the need for deviant behavior to occur in order to drive innovation and continuous improvement within food supply chains. Deviant behavior can be perceived as either positive in terms of driving continuous improvement or destructive where this behavior has a negative impact on the organization. Although multiple cultural maturity models seek to characterize positive food safety culture and climate, there is minimal research that focuses on the characterization of deviant negative behavior or the development of early warning systems designed to pinpoint signals, traits, or characteristics of this behavior such as low staff morale, theft, property destruction, or absenteeism. The use of cultural maturity models and assessment tools is of value in assisting organizations to translate from a rule, instrumental, or compliance-based organizational climate to an ethically strong organizational climate that focuses on integrity, building trust, and values and a new cultural maturity model is proposed and explored.

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Section: Determining Cultural Maturitymentioning

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Section: Determining Cultural Maturitymentioning

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Moving from a compliance‐based to an integrity‐based organizational climate in the food supply chain

Manning¹

2020

Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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“…9,[14][15][16] Over the last few decades, safety climate research has taken four directions including (a) designing psychometric measurement instruments and ascertaining the underlying factor structures, (b) developing and testing theoretical models of safety climate to ascertain determinants of safety behavior and accidents, (c) examining the relationship between safety climate perceptions and actual safety performance, and lastly (d) exploring the links between safety climate and organizational climate. 6 Safety climate survey tools may be used as leading and lagging indicators for safety performance and represent a common strategy for health and safety management systems in many industrial sectors. Management commitment focused on management's emphasis on the importance of safety to safety has been commonly reported in many studies and seems to form an important aspect of safety climate scale 17,18 followed by workers' involvement in safety 19,20 and safety communication.…”

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“…Safety climate, like organizational climate measures, will have a degree of strength and level of quality. Safety climate has been recognized as an important variable in understanding safety performance due to its association with safety behavior and used as a leading indicator to foresee certain unsafe work conditions . Therefore, safety climate factors should be identified in order to have a clear understanding with regards to the current safety culture level and find a solution to increase safety performance.…”

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Safety climate factors at selected chemical manufacturing plant in Malaysia

Zakaria

Hassan

Hamid

et al. 2019

Process Safety Progress

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Statistics in Malaysia show accident cases in the manufacturing industry is the highest as compared to another sector. The concept of safety climate gained interest in many industries as a means of reducing accident. This study assessed workers' perceptions toward safety climate factors, management commitment, communication, a priority of safety, safety rules procedures, social environment, supportive environment, involvement, personal priorities and need for safety, personal appreciation of risk, physical work environment, and lastly top management's commitment and priority. Safety Climate Assessment Toolkit and Zohar Safety Climate Questionnaires were used in this study. A cross‐sectional sample of 309 workers participated. Lowest total mean score was for a personal appreciation of risk (M = 5.41, SD = 1.03), supportive environment (M = 6.61, SD = 0.82), and physical work environment (M = 6.74, SD = 1.24). There was a significant difference between production and nonproduction workers for their perceptions toward involvement in safety (Z = 15.579, P < .001). From the correlation test, age, gender, education level, shift work, and the group were significantly correlated with the nine dimensions of safety climate. Lastly, workers' perception of how management prioritized safety is generally good. A total mean score is (4.89) from the 16 items of Zohar safety climate questionnaire which covers declarative, proactive, and active practices of their management.

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“…The investigation maturity model presented here is similar to other safety maturity models, particularly the popularised safety culture maturity model [18]. Again, this study was motivated by our previous related study, which examined the relationship between the safety culture maturity and safety performance of Ghanaian mines [19]. We observed that for the mines that we sampled, a strong negative correlation existed between their incidence rates and their safety culture maturity scores, suggesting that a more mature safety culture can be a factor in reducing incidents.…”

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Investigating the Maturity of Incident Investigations of the Ghanaian Mining Industry and Its Effect on Safety Performance

Stemn

Bofinger

Cliff

et al. 2019

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Effective incident investigations have been recognised as a vital means of improving safety. Nevertheless, there has been little attempt to link incident investigations to actual safety performance. In this study, a framework for assessing the maturity of incident investigations and identifying areas for improvements is described. The framework was developed based on a literature review and interviews with 41 investigators across five large-scale Ghanaian gold mines. The framework consists of 20 elements across four dimensions and five maturity levels. The dimensions (investigator competencies, system of investigation, stages of investigation and post-investigation findings) consider the most relevant aspects of practical investigation and for each dimension, elements that are more specific were defined across five maturity levels. Mapping the interview data collected from five mines into a maturity framework highlighted that the mines occupied different positions on the framework. Some occupied the advanced levels consistently and others consistently occupied the lower levels. Applying the interview data to the framework also identified priority areas for improvement. Finally, the maturity scores derived from mapping interview data onto the framework were correlated with the incidence rates of the mines to determine if any relationship existed between the two variables. The low incidence rate mines had higher maturity scores and the high incidence rate mines had lower maturity scores. It was found that the method was effective in practice, giving clear indications of areas where improvements are needed.

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Examining the relationship between safety culture maturity and safety performance of the mining industry

Cited by 111 publications

References 39 publications

Moving from a compliance‐based to an integrity‐based organizational climate in the food supply chain

Moving from a compliance‐based to an integrity‐based organizational climate in the food supply chain

Safety climate factors at selected chemical manufacturing plant in Malaysia

Investigating the Maturity of Incident Investigations of the Ghanaian Mining Industry and Its Effect on Safety Performance

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