Safety Culture: The Buzzword to Ensure Occupational Safety and Health

Chib, Shiney; Kanetkar, Medha

doi:10.1016/s2212-5671(14)00183-x

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“…The OSH policy from the beginning followed a truly governance approach, which means in that sensitive context of balancing national and EU responsibilities and liabilities for the field staff -highly inspired by Security Risk Management (SRM) and integrating health promotion into workplace OSH policies [44] -that the focus was put on organisational culture and in this case promoting personal and organisational risk and safety culture [44,45]. That approach has been already proofed as having the strongest influence over workplace safety and health [46][47][48].…”

Section: Case Study: Frontex Operational Osh Implemented Under a Truementioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Police Work with the Public Health Domain: An Occupational Safety and Health Perspective

Holzer¹

2020

IJSSE

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For good reasons, public health and public policing constitute two separate constellations of public affairs governance. They widely differ with regard to their objectives, legal basis, workforce, expertise, traditions, occupational culture and many more. In conjunction to both strands of governance Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) – being both a definition and umbrella term - encompasses any kind of activity related to foster the safety and wellbeing of workers. In that regard OSH is marked by being a highly interdisciplinary, hands-on and heuristic undertaken, in particular widely acknowledged of being ‘public health-close’ and at the same time ‘security risk management-near’. That way OSH is clearly identifiable as a highly promising interface bridging police work with public health, in particular by applying mutual theory and language. This conceptual paper proposes a new perspective and view on organisational OSH, functioning well as a legitimate medium for both frontline workers but also managerial functionaries. Vice-versa organisational OSH has been identified as a suitable trigger for transferring academic stances into the rather praxis- and realpolitik-driven domain of policing. Alongside the prototypical case study of Frontex operational OSH, OSH has been proven as legitimate driver for utilising the current pandemic COVID-19 outbreak as suitable tool for breaking down existing barriers and silos between the both mentioned strands of governance. That way as additional craft and capacity OSH might enfold truly operational strength and added value.

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Section: Case Study: Frontex Operational Osh Implemented Under a Truementioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging Police Work with the Public Health Domain: An Occupational Safety and Health Perspective

Holzer¹

2020

IJSSE

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“…As indicated in the research, these approaches focus on the perceptions of the employees of the organization's safety culture. This implies, there are several different approaches to measuring safety culture in the company (Abdullah et al, 2016;Chib & Kanetkar 2014). It has been observed many industries depend on lagging indicators in measuring safety such as the lost time accidents, process safety incidents, property damages, fatalities and workers compensation costs.…”

Section: Safety Culture Assessment and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, the tool calls attention to trends in an organization's safety performance, which would identify information on which area the intervention program should be focused (Abdullah et al, 2016. The safety climate tool could provide benchmarking data to assist the organization's performance in safety in comparison with other similar companies (Abdullah et al, 2016;Akalp et al, 2015;Chib & Kanetkar 2014;Bhattacharya, 2015;Boughaba, 2014). Benchmarking can be used as part of a commitment to continuous improvement for the organization in addition to routine methods such as surveys or questionnaires, observations and interviews or a combination of all (Abdullah et al, 2016).…”

Section: Safety Culture Assessment and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The principal tool for measuring the safety climate is the use of survey (questionnaire) as most safety research reveals (Abdullah et al, 2016;Akalp et al, 2015;Chib & Kanetkar 2014;Bhattacharya, 2015;Boughaba, 2014). These surveys usually are comprised of questions that measure the participants perceptions, values, beliefs, and attitudes as well as the dimensions…”

Section: Quantitative Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…5, No. 1 of safety including management commitment and employees engagement (Abdullah et al, 2016;Akalp et al, 2015;Chib & Kanetkar, 2014;Bhattacharya, 2015;Boughaba et al, 2014). Moreover, as indicated by Zuschlag et al (2016), hazards and risk evaluations are considered to be one of the quantitative measures to accurately assess the safety climate.…”

Section: Journal Of Safety Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Safety Climate and Culture Review: A Case Study of Water and Power Project

Almalki

Zakaria²,

Balkhyour

et al. 2019

JSS

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Systematic management of occupational safety and health (OSH) issues requires attention in many aspects like regulatory, technical, organizational and managerial. Approaching OSH from an organizational culture perspective can also facilitate achieving sustainable improvements in organizational OSH performance. OSH culture helps in seeing and organizing safety from different perspectives and should not be reduced to a matter of culture only. The knowledge, information and data gathered is expected to be very useful in the process of improving OSH-related procedures, practices and policies, eventually leading to enhanced OSH performance. This paper attempts to describe a cultural approach towards understanding organizational OSH. It will help the readers, professionals, authorities, and policy makers in understanding OSH from a cultural point of view, and how to assess this OSH culture as part of the of organizational improvement process. The aim is to disseminate latest information on this complex topic, trying to build a bridge between practice and research. The scientific literature shows these two terms, safety climate and safety culture, are often interchangeable, but they are distinct but related concepts. The word "safety culture" is a complex and persistent feature reflecting fundamental assumptions, expectations, norms and values, which are also represented by societal culture while "safety climate" best pronounces attitudes, beliefs, and perceptions of employees classically measured by surveys and observations. Safety culture measurement requires detailed investigation of how members in an organization interact to form a shared view of safety. This paper explores the ideas of an organization’s safety climate and culture for the purpose of determining which is more advantageous for accurately describing a "state of safety”. Preliminary results of a case study from a water and power project from Saudi Arabia has been added.

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