Safety Culture: Historiography of Notion

Abstract

This article dwells upon the formation of safety culture. It analyzes the data on the causes of accidents with severe consequences. The author stresses it is crucial to promote knowledge of labor protection and safety culture formation to prevent workplace accidents and occupational diseases. This article presents a literature review on the emergence and development of the notion of safety culture. Some documents from the International Advisory Group for Nuclear Safety of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Labor Organization that shed light on the theory of safety culture formation. The paper also presents the formation of safety culture in the context of legal and statutory regulation. The research employs such theoretical research methods as analyzing, filing, and aggregation of international documents, regulatory framework, and academic papers, as well as their classification, comparison, and comparative analysis. The issue of defining the structural components and criteria indices for safety culture remains open for discussion. The results of the research can be used as a theoretical basis for the development of conceptual provisions for the formation of safety culture.