The Safety corporate culture is the means in which safety is perceived, prioritized and valued in any particular organization. This reflects the real commitment by the company to safety. It has also been described as the means, which a company behaves when one is watching. There is a need for every particular organization to develop a safety culture within its workforce. Further, there is a need for the companies to incorporate the clearly printed safety and health plan into the everyday operating measures that manipulate the performance of employees. The need to incorporate the safety culture in many organizations is so that accidents and injuries are avoided. Studies have shown that about 80% of accidents experienced in many companies are as a result of unsafe acts and conditions. On the subject of unsafe conditions, the corporation needs to generate an immediate and concrete reduction in the number of accidents and their severity. Here is another reason why companies require a safety-first culture (Nieva, 2003). The move to reduce the number of accidents involves a swing to a more practical bearing toward protection and not the common imprudent means. The reactive means comes in when an accident can be recognized, but nothing is prepared to alter the behavior that resulted to the misfortune. This is why any corporation needs the safety culture so that it can address the source of accidents that occur within the companies. The effect of creating safety customs ought not to be taken for granted. A lot of plans and regulations might seem fine in the paper, but if they are not sufficiently incorporated, then they will automatically become ineffective. A company that immediately integrates a safety culture into its operation is likely to appreciate instant and concrete consequences in reducing the number of accidents that occur in the work place (Nieva, 2003).
References
Nieva, V. F., & Sorra, J. (2003). Safety culture assessment: a tool for improving patient safety in healthcare organizations. Quality and Safety in Health Care, 12(suppl 2), ii17-ii23.
