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The development of a safety culture. (industrial safety)
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Chemistry and Industry
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April 1, 1991
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Safety is firmly fixed on the management's agenda, but a self-sustaining safety culture needs genuine commitment from every employee in a company good safety culture is one which encourages people to cafe about adverse outcomes. Organisations which have, or which are able to develop, this common expression of regard about safety, will encourage their workers and their managers to show concern about the ways in which their actions affect the physical world and other people.
It is to the benefit of an industrial company to develop, to promote and to sustain a positive safety culture for a number of reasons. There are several legal expectations built into current health and ...