Safety Culture Learning Portal

The documents you see below are educational materials and guides we’ve created for use by companies when working to understand and improve safety culture. Check back regularly for updates.

How to use the portal

• To improve understanding about what safety culture is
• To help others learn about the CER’s approach to safety culture
• As a handout during a safety moment
• To start a conversation with a team about safety
• As a guide to best practices when building, assessing, or working to improve safety culture

Our commitment

The CER is committed to improving safety culture awareness and understanding, both for safety and environmental protection.

What is safety culture? Culture influences what people see, hear, feel, and say. It influences the decisions and actions (behaviours) of people in an organization.

Why is it important? These behaviours ultimately drive safety outcomes and performance.

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Human and Organizational Factors

Learn how understanding and managing human and organizational factors can help prevent major incidents.

The regulatory priority for safety culture

Read about real-world examples and why regulators prioritize safety culture.

Safety culture defence: Committed safety leadership

Understand the essential role leaders play in nurturing an organization’s safety culture and allowing it to take root and thrive.

Safety culture defence: Resiliency

Find out how companies can recognize and contain new or changing threats, as well as learn and rebound from errors when they occur.

Safety culture defence: Empowerment and accountability

Learn how establishing a strong safety culture requires employees at all levels of an organization to take ownership of, and participate in, proactive safety management.

Safety culture defence: Vigilance

Learn how an organization must continually guard against potential threats by encouraging reporting of concerns and continual learning.

Safety culture threat: Normalization of deviance

Learn what can happen when a company normalizes the practice of deviating from accepted standard operating procedures.

Safety culture threat: Production pressure

Learn what outcomes can occur when leadership prioritizes timelines and budgets over protection of people and the environment.

Safety culture threat: Tolerance of inadequate systems and resources

Understand the consequences of when organizations try to do too much with too little.

Safety culture threat: Complacency

Understand what can happen when an organization is overconfident in its safety system and fails to learn lessons from past events.

Safety Culture Assessment Guidance

Learn the basics about conducting a safety culture assessment.

 

Date modified:

2023-02-08