Safety Culture Best Practices Largely Ignored

摘要

Different industries have devel-oped their own definitions of-and approaches to-safety culture. Rather than learn from one another and adopt the standards and practices that produce the best results, for the most part, industries have evolved their own unique strategies and tools that they are comfortable with. This trend may very well be related to the drastically different safety performances found across industries and evenbetween groups within the same industry. Take U.S. electric utilities, for example. Safety on the transmission side of the business has made notable progress over the past century. However, the transmission industry still withstands fatalities every year. No one would say that people in transmission are cavalier about their work or would minimize the frequency and level of hazards they face regularly. It cannot be ignored, however, that it is not unusual for transmission companies to have fatalities, in addition to serious accidents and injuries, in any given year.