ABSTRACT
Safety culture is a term that nearly everyone uses, but few can agree upon its precise meaning, or how it can be measured. The social science literature offers an abundance of definitions, which is not particularly helpful, but taken together they suggest that the elements of a safety culture can be sub-divided into two parts.1 The first comprises the beliefs, attitudes and values-often unspoken-of an organization’s membership regarding the pursuit of safety. The second is more concrete and embraces the structures, practices, controls and policies that an organization possesses and employs to achieve greater safety.
