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Editable PowerPoint Slides for Lecturers. By Phil Hughes MBE and Ed Ferrett. 4. C hapter. Promoting a positive health and safety culture. Promoting a positive health and safety culture. After reading this chapter you should be able to: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Slides for Lecturers
By Phil Hughes MBE and Ed Ferrett
Promoting a positive health and safety culture
Chapter 4
After reading this chapter you should be able to:1. describe the concept of health and safety culture and its significance in the management of health and safety in an organization2. identify indicators which could be used to assess the effectiveness of an organization’s health and safety culture and recognize factors that could cause its deterioration3. identify the factors which influence safety related behaviour at work4. identify methods which could be used to improve the health and safety culture of an organization5. outline the internal and external influences on an organization’s health and safety standards.
Promoting a positive health and safety culture
Figure 1 ILO defines health and safety culture
A culture in which the right to a safe and healthy working environment is respected at all levels, where government, employers and workers actively participate in securing a safe and healthy working environment through a system of defined rights, responsibilities and duties, and where the principle of prevention is accorded the highest priority.
Incident Rate
Figure 4.1 Safety as an investment
“Safety is, without doubt, the most crucial investment we can make. And the question is not what it costs us, but what it saves.”(Robert E. McKee Chairman and Managing Director or Conoco (UK) Ltd)
Figure 4.2 Heinrich’s accidents/incidents ratios
Figure 4.3 Well designed work station for sitting or standing
Figure 4.4 Poor working conditions
Figure 4.5 Setting Goals and motivating people
Figure 4 .6a Visual perception –are the lines the same length?
Figure 4.6 b & c Visual perception
b) Faces or vase? c) Face or saxophone player?
Figure 4.7 Types of human failure
Figure 8 Health and Safety training needs and opportunities
Figure 4.9 Internal Influences on safety culture
Figure 4.10 External Influences on safety culture