(27b) Safety Culture Excellence from ‘Zero’ Towards ‘One’

The Safety Culture finds its place at the base of ‘Incident Pyramid’. All other pleasant or unintended behaviors by individuals or occurrence of untoward events at workplace are decided by extant Safety Culture of that organization or place.

A ‘Good Safety Culture’ is akin to panacea and has potential to fix almost all issues related to Safety.

Through the treatise, author intends to articulate on a real success story of changing Safety Culture and sustaining the journey of Safety Culture Excellence of a new business (Coal Bed Methane project) spread in an expanse of around 500 Square Kilometers in a tribal dominated area in the central part of India.

The detailed paper will recount in detail:

• What made organization to bank upon Safety Culture enhancement.
• How support of top leadership helped at endeavor towards safety culture evolution
• How focus on ‘Behavior’ changed ‘Attitude’ and finally ‘Culture’ of workforce.
• How, the journey of ‘Safety Culture Excellence’, which started almost a decade ago, is still continuing and sustaining.
• Where are they today? How has the adherence to ‘Safety Culture Excellence’ has changed Safety Performance of the entity.

The entire paper will be covered under following headings:

(i) Genesis and need of embarking on journey called Safety Culture Excellence

(ii) Ancient thoughts and insights about Culture and Leadership behavior.

(iii) Understanding Safety Culture Excellence

(iv) Celebrated Systemic approaches towards Safety Culture Excellence

(v) Challenges in fruition of Safety Culture Excellence

(vi) Outcome of efforts towards Safety Culture Excellence

(vii) Conclusion

(viii) Citations, References and Bibliography.