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Safety Culture

    Introduction

    Safety culture forms the foundation of an organisation’s approach to safety. It is sometimes described as ‘the way things are done when no one is watching’. Knowing about safety culture and how it can be developed will improve an organisation’s approach to successful implementation of health and safety practices.

    Safety Culture Topics
    Understanding and Evolving Your Safety Culture
    Every organisation has a safety culture, whether it is monitored or not. Whilst every organisation has one, there is no uniform approach to getting it right. Each organisation should consider how they can achieve an excellent standard of safety.
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    Measuring Changes Related to Safety Culture Development
    All organisations have a safety culture. In the rail industry, many organisations have programmes in place designed to change the safety culture but how do we know if they’re working?
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    How Managers and Leaders Can Encourage Rail Industry Change
    Although change tends to be a constant in the business world, many changes do not succeed. Find out what skills leaders and managers need to successfully navigate change and earn staff buy-in.
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    Developing Chronic Unease in Senior Leadership

    ‘Chronic unease’ is an approach to safety management adopted by high reliability organisations such as air traffic control and nuclear operators. Rail industry leaders can develop these characteristics to support a culture of continuous safety development.

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    What Do We Mean by Safety-I, Safety-II and Safety Differently?
    Terms such as ‘Safety-I’, ‘Safety-II’ and ‘Safety Differently’ are increasingly used when talking about safety culture. But what do they mean? And how do they help improve safety management?
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    Alternative Approaches to Safety Culture in Rail
    What does Safety-II and Safety Differently look like in practice? In this article we look at some ways organisations have been applying Safety-II and Safety Differently principles.
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    Why and How to Have Safety Conversations
    How safety conversations enable managers understand the reality of work and safety to help build better working practices with staff, and how to have them.
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