HRM: Safety Culture and HRM Functions Implementation at Bruno Smallgoods

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Question 2- Define the term ‘safety culture’
The term, safety culture originated in the year 1986 during the nuclear explosion at
Chernobyl. The International Safety Advisory Group used the term poor and unhygienic
safety culture for the identification of the factors that contributes to workplace accidents. The
safety culture can be defined as the ways that the issues related to safety are addressed at the
workplace. The term furthermore illustrates the beliefs, attitudes, values and perceptions that
are shared by the employees in connection to safety factors.
International Safety Advisory Group defined the term safety culture as the assembly
of the attitudes and the characteristics of an organization that initiates in establishment of
priority and safety plants for addressing the issues that receive the attention for their
importance. According to Cox and Cox (1991), the term safety culture reflects the
perceptions, attitudes, values and the beliefs that is being shared by the employees in
connection to the safety culture. Glendon and Stanton (2000) illustrated the term as the
compromising of the behaviours, attitudes, norms, personal responsibilities and human
resources featuring the development and training. As per the insight of Richter and Koch
(2004), the shared and the meanings of the learning, interpretation of work, experiences of
the safety and work that are expressed symbolically and partially guiding the action of the
people towards the accidents, risk and prevention of the safety culture. Furthermore as per the
insight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2011), safety culture can be illustrated as the
behaviours and the core values that result from a collective commitment by the individuals
and the leaders towards the emphasizing of the safety over the competing goals towards the
ensuring of the protection of the individual and the environment of the organization. The
definition of the safety culture furthermore highlights a set of prevailing beliefs, values and
the indicators that the organization owns towards its safety culture.