Safety Culture - ?
Safety Culture - ?
(Changing Towards a Safety Management System)
CSS 2005 Universal City
Presented by Elaine Parker
Executive member Canadian Society
of Air Safety Investigators
President, Beyond Risk Management Ltd.
Safety Culture - ?
Safety Culture - ?
Safety Culture - ?
Safety Culture - ?
Company Culture
Changing
Towards a Safety
Management
System
What IS Safety?
Webster’s New World
Dictionary
•The condition or quality
of freedom from danger,
injury or damage.
Webster’s New World
Dictionary
•The condition or quality
of freedom from danger,
injury or damage.
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Safety
Hazard
Risk
“Acceptable Risk”
Risk Management
Webster’s New World
Dictionary
• A peril, danger or jeopardy
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Safety
Hazard
Risk
“Acceptable Risk”
Risk Management
Webster’s New World
Dictionary
• To expose to the chance of
injury, damage, or loss
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Safety
Hazard
Risk
“Acceptable Risk”
Risk Management
Between 100 and 300 people are
killed each year in the United States
and another 1,500 are injured
What is
cause?
Between 100 and 300 people are
killed each year in the United States
and another 1,500 are injured
Between 100 and 300 people are
killed each year in the United States
and another 1,500 are injured
It is estimated that at any given time, 2,000
thunderstorms are occurring on earth and that
lightning strikes the ground about 100 times per
second.
A recent study found that lightning deaths may be
underreported by as much as 30 %.
About 20% of people who are struck by lightning are
killed - most survive! The chances of anyone being
struck by lightning is 1 in 600,000.
Ways to assess “Acceptable
Risk”
Risk assessment grids/Matrixes
Severity vs. Probability
Risk exercise (need)
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Safety
Hazard
Risk
“Acceptable Risk”
Risk Management
Risk Management
• To weigh the cost of reduction of the risk
against the cost of leaving the risk
untouched
• To give consideration to the risks which are
most likely influenced in a positive way by
spending resources (money and time) on
them
H. W. Heinrich
1930s thinking good or bad?
Unsafe acts
Vs
Unsafe conditions
Links in a chain
S.H.E.L.L.
• Can’t just find THE
scapegoat
• Must look in all areas
• Must find multiple
solutions/fixes
Dominos
Moving Beyond Risk
Management to a Total
Safety Culture
Webster’s New World
Dictionary
• The growth of bacteria, micro
organisms, or cells in a specially
prepared fluid or solid.
Webster’s New World
Dictionary
• The ideas, customs, skills, arts, etc. of
a people or group in a particular period
of an organization or civilization .
Cognitive definition of culture
• Rules and categories of meaning and action
that are used by individuals to both interpret
and generate appropriate behavior
• A system of meaning, a subculture to the
human experience, which one must be
involved in to develop an adequate
explanation of what is observed
Culture
Culture
More than just appearances
Ask yourself
• What type of pilot do I most want to fly
• What type of engineer do I most want to
work on that plane
• What type of flight attendant do I most want
when the aircraft is on fire
• What type of dispatcher do I want planning
the trip
• What type of manager do I want to work for
In small ways… every day
• What will you walk
by?
• What will you
participate in?
• What will you
instigate?
• What does Safety
mean to you?
YOU have power
Is “Zero Accidents”
Impossible?
We’re all in this
together
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Moving Beyond Risk
Management to a Total
Safety Culture