What are the factors promoting a positive safety culture?

The Safety Culture of an organization can be assessed by looking into indicators such as incidents/ accident, sickness rates, absentteism, staff turn over, non compliance to the rules and worker complaints.

The factors which could lead to deterioration of H&S culture include: Lack of leadership commitment, Blame culture, H&S receiving low priority, organizational changes, poor management system and procedures etc

To promote HSE, Management Commitment is the First and mandatory step. For doing this you have to communicate with the top management with proofs of the indicators listed above. Prepare presentations, leasson learned, safety posters. Prepare KPIs showing both leading and lagging indicators and put true values.