Safety Culture - ?

Safety Culture - ? (Changing Towards a Safety Management System)

CSS 2005 Universal CityPresented 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 freedomfreedom from danger, injury or damage.

•The condition or quality of freedomfreedom from danger, injury or damage.

Define:• Safety

• Hazard

• Risk

• “Acceptable Risk”

• Risk Management

Webster’s New World Dictionary

• A peril, danger or jeopardy

Define:• Safety

• Hazard

• Risk

• “Acceptable Risk”

• Risk Management

Webster’s New World Dictionary

• To expose to the chance of injury, damage, or loss

Define:• 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)

Define:• 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 

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

jl

Moving Beyond Risk Management to a

Total Safety Culture