Linking Safety Culture to Company Values and Legacy

By : Harbans Lal Kaila

Page No: 115-124

Abstract
Do corporate values and legacy reflect in safety culture among employees, is a critical question? Unless safety is practiced as a value by employees, it does not get sustained. It takes regulated efforts from top to down to inculcate safety as a value in an organization. To make it possible, eight companies participated in this research and shared their insights. Three cultural stages (pre-cultural intervention, cultural intervention, and post-intervention) are described that would facilitate linking safety culture to company values and heritage. For strengthening safety culture as corporate values, many ways are recommended such as reporting, policy, principle of safety first and production next, safety as a subject in academics, driving company’s values in actions by implementing behavioural safety approach, make life first as a value on long term basis, connecting safety culture with individual’s goals, include safety culture score in group sustainability targets, and linking organizational ethics with safety values.

Author :
Harbans Lal Kaila : Professor of Psychology (Retd.), SNDT Women’s University, Director - Forum of Safety culture, Mumbai, India.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2023.18.01.12