The industry has learnt a lot about 'safety culture' through safety incidents. The need to create a method to establish safety culture is gaining a lot of importance. The industry as on date lacks a standard model to determine the value of safety associated with safety culture. The proposed Safety Maturity Model (SaMM) will assist organizations engaged in developing safety applications (products and associated services) in defining empirical measurements to measure the safety maturity and safety capability index. This would in turn enable organizations to identify the actions required to improve safety culture and capability. The model is based on industry safety and security standards and CMMI. SaMM assesses the current state and proposes methods to continuously improve the safety culture and reduce the residual safety risk of the organization. SaMM proposes four maturity levels - performing, managing, predicting and optimizing. Each level will have focus areas and associated conditions of satisfaction. SaMM proposes measurements around each level which can be used to measure the capability index and safety maturity. SaMM will potentially increase the confidence in using the safety products among the users and will potentially reduce the product recalls for the Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and improve the safety culture.
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