ABSTRACT
An organisation that willingly and enthusiastically works at safety has what is called as a safety culture, whereas an organisation that merely does what is required of it can never acquire that description. This chapter looks at what are the things to do in order to be safe and combat human error and frames this in terms of the notion of the safety culture. Indeed, as most of the immediately technical causes of accidents will also have their failures caused by earlier human intervention or the lack of it, human and organisational error represents the target for a safety culture to beat. Possession of an effective safety culture is increasingly seen as the solution to the problem of safety management. The safety culture is a part of the more general culture of an organisation. Every organisation has some common, internal, characteristics that we call its culture.
