Advancing Safety Culture Programs: Interfacing Applied Social Work with Occupational Health and Safety for Assessing Organizational Safety Culture
Journal Title: International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 4
Abstract
Protecting workers from hazards and risks in the workplace is an ongoing challenge worldwide. Annual statistics report more than two million fatalities and more than 300 million non-fatal incidents from workplace accidents, workplace violence, and work-related disease worldwide. It is estimated that more than half of the accidents are a result of systems failures that can be attributed to human error, including error that stems from social, psychological, and behavioral factors.Experts have recognized that psychological and social factors play a critical role in organizational culture, and in safety practices in the workplace. Effective management of occupational health and safety programs requires assessment of safety culture. This position paper describes the functional gap in organizational safety culture assessment that can be closed by including social workers on occupational health and safety assessment teams, especially for assessment of organizational safety culture.
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Anton Shufutinsky, Paul A. Shanahan, Brandy B. Shufutinsky
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