ISSN 1831-9351
Occupational Safety and Health culture assessment -
A review of main approaches and selected tools
TE-W E-11-005--EN
-N
Written by the following members of the Topic Centre:
Lieven Eeckelaert (Prevent, Belgium), Annick Starren & Arjella van Scheppingen (TNO Quality of Life, The Netherlands), David Fox (Health & Safety Laboratory, United Kingdom), Carsten Brück (KOOP, Germany)
Reviewed by Markku Aaltonen (FIOH)
Edited by:
Terence N. Taylor (EU-OSHA)
This report was commissioned by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU- OSHA). Its contents, including any opinions and/or conclusions expressed, are those of the author(s) alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of EU-OSHA.
Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union.
Freephone number (*):
00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed.
A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet.
It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu).
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2011
ISBN 978-92-9191-662-7 doi 10.2802/53184
© European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA), 2011
Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
Occupational Safety and Health culture assessment - A review of main approaches and selected tools
Table of contents List of figures and tables......................................................................................................................... 2 Acronyms................................................................................................................................................ 3 Executive Summary................................................................................................................................ 5 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 7 2. Taking a cultural approach towards OSH.................................................................................... 9
2.1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 9 2.2. The organisational triangle .......................................................................................................... 9 2.3. OSH culture ............................................................................................................................... 10 2.4. Theoretical backgrounds ........................................................................................................... 11
2.4.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 11 2.4.2. Safety culture .................................................................................................................. 12 2.4.3. Patient safety culture ...................................................................................................... 16 2.4.4. Health culture..................................................................................................................