Safety Culture Framework
In a previous study, EcoOnline analysed organisational safety performance over five years. Through this, it was found that companies usually fall into one of the following four categories:
Low Compliance Culture
Low risk industries, where the law requires safety training. Low Compliance Culture organisations implement minimal training, resulting in low adoption and low safety activity rates per employee.
Task Force Culture
Safety professionals eager to point out deficiencies and violations, resulting in high levels of safety activities per employee and low adoption rates.
Reactive Culture
Reactive organisations, responding to a particular incident where someone has injured themselves. These organisations see high adoption rates and low safety activity rates per employee.
High Participation Culture
Highly proactive with commitment to safety from the CEO all the way to the front-line workforce, resulting in high safety activities seen per employee and a high adoption rate.
A ‘High Participation Safety Culture’ is the ideal, but under current circumstances, understanding how EHSQ professionals can increase worker participation when so many are widely distributed, disconnected, or unwilling to engage is challenging.
