Critical Challenges in Corporate Safety Culture - 2023 Survey

By : Harbans Lal Kaila

Page No: 271-283

Abstract
Safety culture transformation doesn’t get sustained until it is initiated by the safety professionals, adopted by the HODs, monitored by the site/top management, and reviewed by the company Directors. Companies can assess as to where do they stand on this criteria of safety culture? This paper discusses the challenges of safety culture in terms of: managers deliver speeches on safety but don’t visit the site, safety culture as workplace culture, site Head and HODs, lies in safety culture, minimum safety culture implementation, and gaps in safety culture. Important recommendations are made to overcome the critical challenges in corporate safety culture based on the field visits to almost 48 site locations and interactions with 306 managers. Ground reality of safety culture is different from what is reflected in documents. Hence it is vital to visit site areas by each HOD daily and converse with employees and behavioural safety coordinators of each section/area.

Author :
Harbans Lal : Professor of Psychology (Retd.) – SNDT Women’s University, Director, Forum of Behavioural Safety, Mumbai, India. ORCID 0000-0003-4675-7431

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPR.2023.18.02.11