Safety Culture and Safety Management Systems: Why Management Systems Alone Can’t Guarantee Model Employee Behavior
Jul 17th, 2010 | By Peter Fink and Edna Besnainou
Safety management systems stabilize safety performance and provide greater management clarity and structure, but to what extent do they affect safety culture and promote employee safety? This article explores the relationship between safety management systems and safety culture and introduces a new model showing the complex interplay of systems and culture.
