ABSTRACT

Safety culture has been defined as one of the key factors of an organization's success. In this paper we define ontology of the safety culture. In our ontology we define features of the safety culture that we find to be the most important ones. The selection of the features is based on literature review and discussions with the management of the chemical plant, where the research was done. 39 respondents answered survey, which consisted of 59 statements concerned with 17 safety culture related variables. Keywords: Safety, safety culture, organization behavior, safety consciOusness, safety evaluation

Safety has been defined as one of the key factors of an organization's success. Alone in Finland, in year 2007, there was 143 500 cases of compensations by insurance companies due to industrial accidents. Accidents bring increase in payments, delays to production and negative publicity.