Mindfulness-based cognitive safety and spiritual safety leadership for voluntary safety practice

Abstract

Organizations are making great efforts to improve their level of safety, but accidents continue to occur, and safety issues are not easily solved within an organization. Therefore, the importance of voluntary safety is increasing, and as a result, interest in safety culture has recently increased. However, the concept of safety culture is ambiguous and the implementation of safety culture is not improving in the correct manner. This work proposes a unique framework for voluntary safety practice within an organization. This framework consists of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Safety (MBCS) and spiritual safety leadership. From the perspective of safety within the concept of safety culture, safety has been considered a sub-facet of organizational culture. However, from a new perspective suggested by this study, safety is regarded as another important value separated from organizational culture, in which members should make intentional efforts based on safety awareness. MBCS maintains such safety awareness through self-safety cognition, while spiritual safety leadership is a fundamental foundation and fuel for self-safety cognition. Based on this, industries can pursue ideal safety and increase the integrity of the organization. This work provides effective guidance to improve safety management and emergency management related to industrial accidents.