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What are the components of safety culture?

What are the components of safety culture?

Increasing an organization's safety, its durability in relation to an event that could jeopardise its existence, by working with teams around the fundamentals that are: - Clarity of challenges linked to the nature of work - Attitude to errors - Managerial behaviours and attitudes - Behaviours and attitudes between employees - Systems and structures of the work environment SAFETY CULTURE MODEL #### HOW TO ACHIEVE THIS? Engagement, sense of responsibility and creativity cannot be commanded. It is therefore necessary to create and maintain daily an environment for: - enabling employees to express themselves on questions that animate them, their doubts or even their errors by putting in place psychological safety - and leaving them the opportunity to become aware of what works well for them, individually and collectively, so as to increase successes and performing behaviours by promoting "appreciative inquiry". This makes it possible to work on the fundamentals (preferably through self-questioning) of safety culture, the last bastion against the complexity of the threat.

Safety culture helps the organization not to be overwhelmed by a threat environment in which risks are too numerous and evolving too rapidly to be predicted, even by the most far-sighted leader. > > – International Agency for Atomic Energy, 1990

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