The Concept of Safety Culture and Its Importance for Food and Beverage Industry

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The aim of the paper is to reflect on the concept of safety culture and its importance for food and
beverage industry. The study purposefully selects the organization Evans Smallgoods to reflect
on the notion. It will define the term and discuss the role of employers and leaders in creating
effective safety culture. Additionally, this paper will mention some recommendation to improve
the existing safety culture of the organization.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction.....................................................................................................................................4
Legal responsibilities of employers to ensure safe work environment............................................4
Definition of the term safety culture................................................................................................6
Managerial commitment..............................................................................................................8
Visible administration..................................................................................................................8
Good conversation among all levels of employees......................................................................8
Inspection.....................................................................................................................................8
Suggestion and enforcement........................................................................................................9
Several ways safety culture may improve the safety behavior of the employees.............................9
Impact on the quality...................................................................................................................9
Impact on the aspect of reliability.............................................................................................10
Impact on competitiveness.........................................................................................................10
Impact on profitability...............................................................................................................10
Recommendation............................................................................................................................12
Human resource management...................................................................................................13
Training and development.........................................................................................................13
Focus on the consumers.............................................................................................................14
Effective Communication...........................................................................................................14
Assessing the safety of food culture on a regular basis.............................................................14

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Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
Safety culture is considered to be a set of values that the employees follow to manage the
risks related to health and safety of a particular business organization. The paper will
demonstrate the role of employers to ensure work environment. The next section will properly
define the term safety culture and its importance in the food and beverage industry. The study
will further mention the impact of safety culture on different aspects of organization followed by
few recommendation to bring improvisation in the existing safety culture of the organization.
Legal responsibilities of employers to ensure safe work environment
Every individual employee has certain responsibilities towards the organization and to
achieve personal goal and serve the organization. Similarly, the employers need to perform some
responsibilities towards the organization, that also includes selection, recruiting, training, and
some legal responsibilities. This section will discuss about the legal responsibilities the
employers need to perform to ensure safety in the workplace environment.
To know the responsibilities of the employers, first it is worth to understand who is an
employer? The responsible person or organization who recruits personnel for the organization.
The recruited person is known as employee or staff member. An employee is the person to take
various responsibility including maintaining the safety in the workforce environment (Zhang et
al. 2015). In this article, the responsibility of the employers will be discussed. The
responsibilities of the employers are mentioned in the following section.
 Implanting the system of the work.
 Handling and storing the transportation of substances and goods.

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 Providing information or instruction and often supervision to monitor the health
and safety culture of the workforce environment.
 Maintaining the safety related to the entrance and exit of the organization.
 Providing and maintaining the safety in the environment with ample amount of
facilities (Hopkins 2017).
 Employers having more than five members working under the supervision must
have written policy for the safety facilities.
 The other most important responsibility of an employer is to look after the other
employees using the same premise for the work.
Employers are also true and legal worker of the organization. There are several aspects included
in the right of an employer. These aspects are mentioned in the following section.
 Regulation of knowledge about health and safety – It is the primary piece of
legislation made by every organization. As an additional facility, specific
regulation of awareness in the leading field and construction of the work (Weaver
et al. 2013).
 Assessing the risk – The employers’ responsibility for the business organization
also include assessing the probable risk of the particular organization. Assessing
the risks refer to identification of the probable problems that can bring any
negative circumstances for the business organization.
 According to the business law and management, employers need to look after the
health and safety of the management team. Employers must perform the needful
activities to achieve success.