Improving Your Company's Safety Culture

摘要

Pipeline companies have a responsibility to protect the general public and the environment by managing critical infrastructure assets safely. How safe a pipeline is has to do with its equipment, control systems and procedures, as well as with the culture the company operating the pipeline and its employees exude.Culture is defined as "the set of shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes an institution or organization," according to Merriam Webster. This means that the culture of an individual employee is governed by the paradigm he or she operates within. While a company's culture is often projected externally, it is essentially made up of the company's common procedures and the values its employees hold.