Safety Thought of the Week… Work on safety should often include a greater integration of human and organizational factors

Improving the safety culture requires an integrated approach to safety through coherent actions in three (3) areas:

1. technical aspects,
2. safety management, and
3. human and organizational factors.

The “safety culture” approach cannot make up for insufficient action in these three areas.

Source: The ICSI “Safety Culture” working group (2017). Safety Culture: from Understanding to Action. Issue 2018-01 of the Cahiers de la Sécurité Industrielle collection, Institut pour une Culture de Sécurité Industrielle (ICSI), Toulouse, France. Available as a free download from: http://www.icsi-eu.org/