A human factors perspective on safety culture

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Human systems management Pub Date : 2022-07-22 DOI:10.3233/hsm-220041

B. Mrugalska, T. Dovramadjiev

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: In the last decades a revolution for safety industries is widely recognizable. Regulatory bodies have tried to investigate more and more how the industry can get better and learn from hazardous events. Moreover, industrial associations have increased the amount of provided best practices, and started to train and certify new standards of process safety. However, experts indicate that one of the most important elements in safety performance is the role of people. The recent findings of accident investigations demonstrate a growing recognition that the cultural context and human performance may influence safety and therefore, a focus on safety culture is inevitable in contemporary enterprises. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this paper is to establish the relationship between human factors and safety culture in industrial environment. METHODS: In the research study we adopted multiple methods that consisted of the completion of a safety culture assessment survey in an industrial sector (243 responses) and research interviews (5 in total) within industrial authorities. RESULTS: The results of the research clearly show a crucial role of human factors in safety culture. It was investigated in relation to safety training, safety awareness, hazard identification and risk, responding to incidents, and communication and safety. CONCLUSIONS: Summing up, it can be concluded that the behaviours and awareness of humans and a positive safety culture influence directly safety good practices, hazard control, incident reporting and finally number and scope of accidents at work.

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安全文化的人因视角

背景：在过去的几十年里，安全行业的一场革命已经广为人知。监管机构试图越来越多地调查该行业如何变得更好，并从危险事件中吸取教训。此外，行业协会增加了提供的最佳实践的数量，并开始培训和认证新的工艺安全标准。然而，专家指出，安全性能中最重要的因素之一是人的作用。最近的事故调查结果表明，人们越来越认识到文化背景和人的表现可能会影响安全，因此，对安全文化的关注在当代企业中是不可避免的。目的：建立工业环境中人的因素与安全文化的关系。方法：在研究中，我们采用了多种方法，包括完成工业部门的安全文化评估调查（243份回复）和工业部门的研究访谈（共5份）。结果：研究结果清楚地表明了人为因素在安全文化中的关键作用。调查涉及安全培训、安全意识、危险识别和风险、事件应对以及沟通和安全。结论：总之，可以得出结论，人类的行为和意识以及积极的安全文化直接影响安全良好做法、危险控制、事件报告，最终影响工作中事故的数量和范围。

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Human systems management MANAGEMENT-

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3.50

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30.40%

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期刊介绍： Human Systems Management (HSM) is an interdisciplinary, international, refereed journal, offering applicable, scientific insight into reinventing business, civil-society and government organizations, through the sustainable development of high-technology processes and structures. Adhering to the highest civic, ethical and moral ideals, the journal promotes the emerging anthropocentric-sociocentric paradigm of societal human systems, rather than the pervasively mechanistic and organismic or medieval corporatism views of humankind’s recent past. Intentionality and scope Their management autonomy, capability, culture, mastery, processes, purposefulness, skills, structure and technology often determine which human organizations truly are societal systems, while others are not. HSM seeks to help transform human organizations into true societal systems, free of bureaucratic ills, along two essential, inseparable, yet complementary aspects of modern management: a) the management of societal human systems: the mastery, science and technology of management, including self management, striving for strategic, business and functional effectiveness, efficiency and productivity, through high quality and high technology, i.e., the capabilities and competences that only truly societal human systems create and use, and b) the societal human systems management: the enabling of human beings to form creative teams, communities and societies through autonomy, mastery and purposefulness, on both a personal and a collegial level, while catalyzing people’s creative, inventive and innovative potential, as people participate in corporate-, business- and functional-level decisions. Appreciably large is the gulf between the innovative ideas that world-class societal human systems create and use, and what some conventional business journals offer. The latter often pertain to already refuted practices, while outmoded business-school curricula reinforce this problematic situation.