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What is safety culture?

“The safety culture of an organisation is the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behaviour that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organisation’s safety management system (within the overall business management system).”

Adapted from ACSNI Human Factors Study Group: Third report - Organising for safety HSE Books 1993

Working Group Purpose

Safety Culture Working Group (SCWG) seeks to ‘Improve safety culture in safety critical organisations focussed on product and functional safety, by sharing examples and latest approaches collated from real life case studies’.

The Terms of Reference for the working group are available to registered members or on request from the group leader.

Objectives

SCWG's current focus is to improve the following specific aspects of Safety Culture:

Measuring Safety Culture
Independent and repeatable assessment of Safety Culture
Safety Culture between organisations
Safety Culture in boards of large corporate organisations
Safety Culture in teams developing safety critical systems

Membership

If you would like to become a member of the SCWG, please contact the group leader at michael.wright@scsc.uk

Membership is open to all, and is done through nominations through an existing Working Group member or the group leaders. All memberships are approved by SCWG members based on individual's industry and experience of Safety Culture or Safety Critical Industries.

2023 Working Group Meetings

The group meets every 3 months. Our 2023 meetings are on:

27th February 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT

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22nd May 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT

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4th September 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT

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27th November 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT

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Please email michael.wright@scsc.uk if you have any questions. All meetings are held on Zoom 13:00-15:00 GMT.

Safety cuture assessment and improvement survey

Click on our SCWG survey page to see the results of our survey of organisational approaches to assessing and improving safety culture.

Past Webinars(recordings)

We have run two annual seminars and now also have a presentation at each of our quarterly workng group meetings.

2021 webinar

Our 2021 webinar (Safety Culture developments) was held on the 13th April, on Zoom, with a healthy attendance. The webinar looked at new developments in Safety Culture and results from the 2021 SCSC SCWG Online Survey.

See here for hhtps://scsc.uk/e793

2022 webinar

Our 2022 webinar (Accident Investigation and safety culture) was held on the 27th april 2022 with excellent delegate feedback. The event had several themes, including:

Does learning from accidents support the improvement of safety performance?
How can you encourage learning from incidents and accidents?

These themes were set in the context of “Safety II” that addresses criticisms of what is characterised as “Safety I” including that: “… seeing deficiencies in hindsight does nothing to explain the generation or persistence of those deficiencies.”

The event presentations and recorded talks can be see at https://scsc.uk/e900prog?uid=4405

The event summary was published in the May SCSC newsletter and can be see here: /file/gu-main/SCSC-Newsletter-Volume-30-Nos-2---May-2022-v2-47-54-1.pdf

November 2022 working group presentation

Our November 2022 Working Group meeting was privileged to receieve a presentation from Richard Folkes (OBE, FRAeS, BA Hon, EXON) Head of Aviation Safety/Accountable Manager (Military Flying) on safety culture at Leonardo Helicopters. The presentation was heard by 20 members and generated great interest, as an excellent example of how an organisation with a good safety record invested in a process of self-assessment and improvement.

The recorded presentation can be accessed via the link below:

https://scsc.uk/file/gu/Leonardo_Helicopters_safety_culture_programme_28_11_22_presentation-1476.mp4

Recommended viewing

Some interesting articles have been released by Paul Leach, a group member and safety culture specialist at Rail Safety and Standards Board, and Russell Keir, Vice Chair of the Railway Group at the Institution of Safety and Health (IOSH) on What is Safety Cuture?, How to develop a safe culture? and I'm Ready to Develop my Culture: Now What?

A paper by Michael Wright, the Group Chair, is Assessing safety culture: recent developments and lessons learnt and a joint paper is "Developing a framework for assessing workplace and product safety culture in BAE Systems"

Some useful websites and online resources are listed below:

UK Health and Safety Executive

Health and Safety Executive: Common Topic 4: Safety Culutre: https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/common4.pdf
Health and Safety Executive: Organisational Culture: https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/culture.htm

Rail

EU Agency for Railways https://www.era.europa.eu/activities/safety-culture_en
Rail Safety and Standards Board's Safety Culture Toolkit: https://safetyculturetoolkit.rssb.co.uk/home.aspx
Rail Safety and Standards Board: Safety culture guidance: https://www.rssb.co.uk/safety-and-health/improving-safety-health-and-wellbeing/understanding-human-factors/safety-culture

Nuclear

Office for Nuclear Regulation: Safety Culture Guide for Inspectors: https://www.onr.org.uk/operational/tech_insp_guides/ns-insp-gd-070.pdf
World Association of Nuclear Operators:Traits of a Healthy Nuclear Safety Culture: https://www.wano.info/resources/traits-of-a-healthy-nuclear-safety-culture?lang=en-GB
International Atomic Energy Agency: Safety and Security Culture: https://www.iaea.org/topics/safety-and-security-culture

Energy including oil and gas

Hearts and Minds safety culture toolkit: https://heartsandminds.energyinst.org/
Centre for Chemical Process Safety: "What is at stake"?: https://www.aiche.org/ccps/safety-culture-what-stake
International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP):Shaping safety culture through safety leadership https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/shaping-safety-culture-through-safety-leadership/

Aviation

Civil Aviation Authority: https://www.caa.co.uk/safety-initiatives-and-resources/how-we-regulate/state-safety-programme/safety-promotion/safety-culture/
SKYbrary: https://skybrary.aero/articles/safety-culture
Eurocontrol Just Culture: https://www.eurocontrol.int/initiative/just-culture

Healthcare

Royal College of Nursing: https://www.rcn.org.uk/clinical-topics/patient-safety-and-human-factors/professional-resources/safety-culture
UK National Health Service: https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/a-just-culture-guide/

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Home Safety in the News Events Diary Catch up Publications Newsletters Proceedings eJournal Working groups Safety Culture SCWG Survey - Community space @SafetyClubUK		If you have been given the code to join this group please login and then enter the code here. What is safety culture? “The safety culture of an organisation is the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behaviour that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organisation’s safety management system (within the overall business management system).” Adapted from ACSNI Human Factors Study Group: Third report - Organising for safety HSE Books 1993 Working Group Purpose Safety Culture Working Group (SCWG) seeks to *‘Improve safety culture in safety critical organisations focussed on product and functional safety, by sharing examples and latest approaches collated from real life case studies’.* The Terms of Reference for the working group are available to registered members or on request from the group leader. Objectives SCWG's current focus is to improve the following specific aspects of Safety Culture: Measuring Safety Culture Independent and repeatable assessment of Safety Culture Safety Culture between organisations Safety Culture in boards of large corporate organisations Safety Culture in teams developing safety critical systems Membership If you would like to become a member of the SCWG, please contact the group leader at michael.wright@scsc.uk Membership is open to all, and is done through nominations through an existing Working Group member or the group leaders. All memberships are approved by SCWG members based on individual's industry and experience of Safety Culture or Safety Critical Industries. 2023 Working Group Meetings The group meets every 3 months. Our 2023 meetings are on: 27th February 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82860033213?pwd=TVFsdDhTczRvOWNTSzBJc0xjMWFWQT09 Meeting ID: 828 6003 3213 Passcode: 281386 22nd May 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82009142969?pwd=QmVqZWpGcDZjVjdQRk01RjFlcHVjZz09 Meeting ID: 820 0914 2969 Passcode: 063108 4th September 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85634559055?pwd=RFNuOHNaYklFZklVSkEwUXdxVWw4Zz09 Meeting ID: 856 3455 9055 Passcode: 342074 27th November 2023, 13:00-15:00 GMT Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83156495942?pwd=b3N2ZzZDNkJXR1ZOS3RrdElYeWlCQT09 Meeting ID: 831 5649 5942 Passcode: 517333 Please email michael.wright@scsc.uk if you have any questions. All meetings are held on Zoom 13:00-15:00 GMT. Safety cuture assessment and improvement survey Click on our SCWG survey page to see the results of our survey of organisational approaches to assessing and improving safety culture. Past Webinars(recordings) We have run two annual seminars and now also have a presentation at each of our quarterly workng group meetings. 2021 webinar Our 2021 webinar (Safety Culture developments) was held on the 13th April, on Zoom, with a healthy attendance. The webinar looked at new developments in Safety Culture and results from the 2021 SCSC SCWG Online Survey. See here for hhtps://scsc.uk/e793 2022 webinar Our 2022 webinar (Accident Investigation and safety culture) was held on the 27th april 2022 with excellent delegate feedback. The event had several themes, including: Does learning from accidents support the improvement of safety performance? How can you encourage learning from incidents and accidents? These themes were set in the context of “Safety II” that addresses criticisms of what is characterised as “Safety I” including that: “… seeing deficiencies in hindsight does nothing to explain the generation or persistence of those deficiencies.” The event presentations and recorded talks can be see at https://scsc.uk/e900prog?uid=4405 The event summary was published in the May SCSC newsletter and can be see here: /file/gu-main/SCSC-Newsletter-Volume-30-Nos-2---May-2022-v2-47-54-1.pdf November 2022 working group presentation Our November 2022 Working Group meeting was privileged to receieve a presentation from Richard Folkes (OBE, FRAeS, BA Hon, EXON) Head of Aviation Safety/Accountable Manager (Military Flying) on safety culture at Leonardo Helicopters. The presentation was heard by 20 members and generated great interest, as an excellent example of how an organisation with a good safety record invested in a process of self-assessment and improvement. The recorded presentation can be accessed via the link below: https://scsc.uk/file/gu/Leonardo_Helicopters_safety_culture_programme_28_11_22_presentation-1476.mp4 Recommended viewing Some interesting articles have been released by Paul Leach, a group member and safety culture specialist at Rail Safety and Standards Board, and Russell Keir, Vice Chair of the Railway Group at the Institution of Safety and Health (IOSH) on What is Safety Cuture?, How to develop a safe culture? and I'm Ready to Develop my Culture: Now What? A paper by Michael Wright, the Group Chair, is Assessing safety culture: recent developments and lessons learnt and a joint paper is "Developing a framework for assessing workplace and product safety culture in BAE Systems" Some useful websites and online resources are listed below: UK Health and Safety Executive Health and Safety Executive: Common Topic 4: Safety Culutre: https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/common4.pdf Health and Safety Executive: Organisational Culture: https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/culture.htm Rail EU Agency for Railways https://www.era.europa.eu/activities/safety-culture_en Rail Safety and Standards Board's Safety Culture Toolkit: https://safetyculturetoolkit.rssb.co.uk/home.aspx Rail Safety and Standards Board: Safety culture guidance: https://www.rssb.co.uk/safety-and-health/improving-safety-health-and-wellbeing/understanding-human-factors/safety-culture Nuclear Office for Nuclear Regulation: Safety Culture Guide for Inspectors: https://www.onr.org.uk/operational/tech_insp_guides/ns-insp-gd-070.pdf World Association of Nuclear Operators:Traits of a Healthy Nuclear Safety Culture: https://www.wano.info/resources/traits-of-a-healthy-nuclear-safety-culture?lang=en-GB International Atomic Energy Agency: Safety and Security Culture: https://www.iaea.org/topics/safety-and-security-culture Energy including oil and gas Hearts and Minds safety culture toolkit: https://heartsandminds.energyinst.org/ Centre for Chemical Process Safety: "What is at stake"?: https://www.aiche.org/ccps/safety-culture-what-stake International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (IOGP):Shaping safety culture through safety leadership https://www.iogp.org/bookstore/product/shaping-safety-culture-through-safety-leadership/ Aviation Civil Aviation Authority: https://www.caa.co.uk/safety-initiatives-and-resources/how-we-regulate/state-safety-programme/safety-promotion/safety-culture/ SKYbrary: https://skybrary.aero/articles/safety-culture Eurocontrol Just Culture: https://www.eurocontrol.int/initiative/just-culture Healthcare Royal College of Nursing: https://www.rcn.org.uk/clinical-topics/patient-safety-and-human-factors/professional-resources/safety-culture UK National Health Service: https://www.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety/a-just-culture-guide/ SCSC.UK uses anonymous session cookies please see Privacy policy © SCSC 2023