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| Put simply, safety culture is “the way we do things round here”, in other words how well the employees and managers work together to tackle safety issues. A good safety culture means that everyone shares a belief in the importance of safety and strives to ensure health and safety is done properly and that safety is always given high priority. |
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| Following the investigation into the Clapham Junction accident in 1989, Sir Anthony Hidden suggested that development of a ‘positive safety culture’ was the key to improving the safety of Britain’s railway network |
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| There are many differing models of Safety Culture, however they all tend to include very similar areas. The RSSB safety culture assessment approach reflects consideration of these and use the following key elements |
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| Safety culture has differing levels of development – a 5 level model allows an organisation to benchmark themselves and identify the appropriate key enablers to progress to the next level.. |
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| A safety culture assessment allows an organisation to better understand how its people perceive safety and the company’s approach to health & safety management. It allows the organisation to identify both strengths and weaknesses which then allow it improve its approach to health and safety. There are many approaches, but the HMRI expects rail companies to conduct and act on safety culture assessments. |
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| The background to the RSSB toolkit explains how the toolkit has been developed and explains the main contents of the toolkit. |
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| Generic guidance is provided on safety culture improvement that is based on a basic concept of safety culture development with differing levels of safety culture. The guidance helps identify the key enablers to progress up through the levels |
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| Shows the HMRI’s expectations on safety culture and a brief description of the HMRI safety culture assessment tool |
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| This section compiles summaries of safety culture improvement “good practices” from the rail and other similar industries. It allows the rail industry to share and adopt good practices. |
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| Provides guidance on how to conduct analyses and develop responses to the survey |
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| Provides a set of links to useful references on safety culture |
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