Safety Culture
Before we get started, it is critical to understand that the only way your Construction Safety Management System (CSMS) will succeed is to make sure the underlying safety culture includes a real long-term serious commitment and tough-caring leadership by management.
Building a Safety Culture
This first module will briefly explore some of the important components that are necessary in an effective safety culture. By the way, if you are interested in developing your CSMS, be sure to take course 833 Developing a Construction Safety Management System.
Safety Culture Definition
Believe it or not, OSHA actually has a pretty good definition for a safety culture. OSHA defines culture as "a combination of an organization's, attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, values, ways of doing things, and other shared characteristics of a particular group of people".
It's important to understand that, from the employer's point of view, the company's corporate culture is something to be managed, but if you ask an employee to define culture, they will likely tell you it's just... "the way things are around here."
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
1-1. We can define which term as "a combination of an organization's attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, values, ways of doing things, and other shared characteristics?"
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