Harbans Lal
SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai
Safety culture is what we call as people’s safe behaviours. Safety culture is a fast
growing wave in industry today. Addressing gaps in building longterm supportive safety
culture for companies underlines a set of unresolved questions on behavioural risks
management in industry and possible solutions. Everyone raises voice for safety, safety
culture comes and risk disappears, is it so simple? Most companies delayed their HSE
decisions till they suffered. Why so? Without inculcating safety as a core corporate value,
industry can not be considered safe. Behavioural safety culture is a live surveillance
on the risks and their spot-correction to ensure that the safety culture building process
is kept on. Behaviouralisation of safety culture is necessary to overcome incidents and
accidents at sites. Behavioural Safety education to one and all is the safety culture
being addressed by the most. Ideologies on safety cultures vary across the industries
in terms of practices. The present article dwelt on identifying the unresolved critical
questions on behavioural safety supportive culture implementation in industry and
raised possible solutions. The data were collected from 603 industry professionals
as being study participants. The sampling method was a non-random convenience
sampling. A set of ten themes of research findings reflected upon the critical issues
such as basic questions on longterm safety cultures; Reactive safety culture; collective
voice and leadership for at-risk behaviours; Religion, spirituality, festivities for safety
at sites; Implementation of safety with feeling for others; Features of companies not
empowering their workforce for performing safety implementation; Competencies gap
amongst the safety professionals, the major roadblocks in HSE decisions-making, the
spot-implementation of behavior based safety (BBS) approach by top leaders, and
myriad factors to advance the success of longterm supportive safety culture. Fasttracking supportive safety culture at sites would mean the next levels of hard work. The
news of any safety incident travels to the share holders and impact the company’s share
price. The professionals reminded to strengthen safety culture in business cultures with
full behavioral safety implementation alongwith daily reviews. This paper has added an
in-depth sense of qualitative data on the topic
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