Abstract

This paper is about how we can make further sense of the safety culture concept in safety and risk management. Safety culture is here understood as shared beliefs, norms, values, practices and structures, with respect to safety, in an organization. We argue that the risk science (interpreted in its broadest sense to also include safety science) provides important reference points for what these beliefs, norms, values and practices should be. For example, the risk science highlights that complexity needs to be acknowledged and confronted by resilience-based strategies, in addition to the use of risk assessments. A safety culture which is not built on the state of the art of the risk science cannot be considered ‘good’. The main aims of the paper are to draw attention to this issue and present a framework that can help organizations to develop a safety culture that builds on the risk science.

摘要

本文讨论了如何在安全和风险管理中进一步理解安全文化概念。在这里，安全文化被理解为组织中有关安全的共同信念，规范，价值观，做法和结构。我们认为，风险科学（从广义上讲也包括安全科学）为这些信念，规范，价值观和实践应提供什么提供了重要的参考点。例如，风险科学强调，除了使用风险评估之外，还必须通过基于弹性的策略来承认和应对复杂性。没有建立在风险科学的最新水平上的安全文化不能被认为是“良好”的。