Abstract
Every organization has an interest in protecting its assets and increasing its profit. To preserve the integrity, organizations generally ensure their assets are safe. Today, especially in large organizations, asset security is a chief priority in decision-making. A factor affecting the level of an organization’s security is its safety culture. This factor is measured by the level by which the organization and its employees adopt and comply with security rules and principles. The status of a safety culture can have a positive or negative impact on the organization’s security, which directly affects its development. The aim of this article is to describe approaches for assessing the safety culture of different organizations. The study results can be used to compare several organizations, and it is possible to identify differences in the level of safety culture after applying innovative changes.
Highlights
A factor affecting an organization’s security is its safety culture
It is important to assess the level of safety culture in organizations
It is necessary to define the methods for assessing safety culture as well as choosing the appropriate method for a particular organization
Summary
A factor affecting an organization’s security is its safety culture Organizations and their employees have specific values, traditions, attitudes, and approaches towards security issues. It is important to know the possibility of measuring safety culture, which may be different for each organization. Since the existence of human civilization, influencing the safety of national or religious cultures prevails to achieve objectives or obtain domination Today, this phenomenon persists with the ordinary person starting to realize its importance. The investigative team that examined the accident stated that the main reason for the overheating reactor were shortcomings in the safety culture of the organization. 23) states that “the safety culture of an organization is the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behavior that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, and organization’s health and safety management”. The level of artifact acquires understanding after becoming aware of the values and assumptions (SAFETY CULTURE IN NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT: Instructions for use in enhancing safety culture, 2010)
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