Methodology for the Determination of a Process Safety Culture Index and Safety Culture Maturity Level in Industries

Abstract

A mature of safety culture is crucial to preventing and mitigating accidents, incidents, and unsafe behaviors in the process industry, so as to make it more sustainable and economically responsible. Measurement, investigation, and assessment of the safety culture using interviews, questionnaires, behavior observation, reviewing documentation, and its impact on the safety performances of an organization is complicated, challenging, and requires a commitment to all employees. The aim of this study was to propose a novel, unique semi-quantitative methodology for the determination of a total process safety culture index and parametric model of process safety culture maturity in an organization based on the Bradley model. The methodology includes a questionnaire concerning different process safety culture factors, calculation procedures, and a graphical tool. In addition, three quantitative survey indicators were proposed: indicators of direct communication, average communication time, and the applicability rate of the proposed changes by employees. A fully-developed total process safety culture index allows for identifying, hierarchizing, and benchmarking different factors of the safety culture among companies and sectors. Moreover, it will enable identifying the area of actions required to improve safety practices and elements applied to the organization analyzed. The proposed methodology was verified in a case study of one energy company with three locations in Poland and can be easily applied to different industrial fields, including logistics and warehousing, the food industry, the paper industry, security services, fire services, and environmental and other agencies.

Analyzing the influential factors of process safety culture by hybrid hidden content analysis and fuzzy DEMATEL

“…Accurate and comprehensive information about industrial processes and associated risks enhances employee understanding of incident causes and enables them to adopt appropriate safety measures during their work processes. Furthermore, access to process information empowers managers to identify process strengths and weaknesses, and take necessary preventive measures to improve process safety 43 . Furthermore, having access to process and safety information can be an effective educational tool for promoting process safety culture.…”

Integrated Approach for Safety Culture Factor Evaluation from a Sustainability Perspective

“…Therefore, they suggest adding another pillar, namely culture, to the three basic pillars of sustainable development (economic, environmental, social) [129,130]. An important part of the organizational culture is the safety culture; therefore, it plays an important role in strategic management [131,132], thus contributing to the achievement of its goals, including the goals of sustainable development.…”

Komitmen Manajemen dan Safety Procedure sebagai Faktor Pembentuk Safety Behavior

“…Hipotesa kelima, Safety Culture berpengaruh terhadap Safety Behavior, berdasarkan hasil uji analisis SEM didapatkan nilai koefisien jalur sebesar 0,420 dengan thitung sebesar 3.840 hal ini menunjukan bahwa hipotesis ini tidak terbukti secara empiris karena nilai thitung lebih kecil dari ttabel yaitu 1,96 artinya Ha diterima dan H0 ditolak. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa praktik safety culture berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap safety behavior dan hasil ini sejalan dengan hipotesa yang dikembangkan dalam penelitian ini, serta hasil ini juga tidak mendukung penelitian sebelumnya oleh (Siuta et al, 2022) yang menyampaikan bahwa safety culture berpengaruh terhadap safety behavior.…”