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Organizational Behavior and

Corporate Culture:

Effect of Corporate Culture on

Safety Performance

In Partnership with

Erickson Associates

Agenda

Welcome

Members Voice

Expert Discussion:

• Corporate culture

• Subcultures

• Organizational Factors

• Relationship between corporate culture and safety performance

• Relationship to safety culture

Q & A session

EHSQ Community Thought Leadership Discussion sponsored by Intelex Technologies In Partnership with Erickson Associates

EHSQ Community Discussion In Partnership with

Dr. Judith Erickson

President

Erickson Associates

Jim Loud

Safety Management Consultant

James Loud Consulting

Dave Rebbitt

President

Rarebit Consulting

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Housekeeping

Webinar is 60 minutes duration,

and recorded.

Please close out other open

applications on computer.

Questions will be answered

during the Q & A Period.

EHSQ Community Thought Leadership Discussion sponsored by Intelex Technologies

In Partnership with

Erickson Associates

Recap of First Webinar

• Terminology

• Brief history of management/psychology on safety

• Psychosocial factors

• Organizational behavior

• Corporate culture

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EHSQ Member

Questions

Member Question from first webinar:

1. Why do so many in safety still cling to 100 year old and largely discredited concepts?

2. What are some of the pressures pushing us away from evidence-based decision making?

3. Do you think it is necessary for safety professionals to understand how systems affect

safety, and the strategic/holistic approaches necessary to improve them?

4. Is it possible to have a sustainable “safety culture” outside of the corporate culture?

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EHSQ Member

Voices

Members Voices: Do you believe that solely quantitative methods

accurately measure safety performance?

22%

78%

Yes

No

Solely quantitative methods accurately measure safety performance?

Note: 151 Participants answered

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Members Voices: Do you believe that organizations generally view

employees as a) a cost of doing business or b) a valuable resource?

33%

67%

cost of doing business

valuable resource

Organizations view employees as…?

Note: 147 Participants answered

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Members Voices: Do you believe that safety should be treated

separately from the organization?

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17%

83%

Yes

No

safety should be treated separately from the organization?

Note: 150 Participants answered

Expert Discussion

Philosophical Shift in Thinking

• Questioning

• Following evidence

• Seeking truth

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Corporate Culture

• Assumptions

• Values

• Actions

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Subcultures

Do not have the same value system as dominant

culture

• Critical thinking

• Interdisciplinarity

• Knowledge transfer

Foundational Base of Healthy Corporate

Culture

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1. Organizational Structure

2. Organizational Importance of Safety

3. Safety Responsibility and Accountability

4. Communication

5. Management Behavior

6. Employee Involvement/Participation

7. Employee Responses

Organizational Factors

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• Is Safety Culture a real or artificial concept, or a sub-culture?• What creates culture? SWAG versus Values • Who creates culture? C-Suite or Safety Manager

Corporate Culture Relationship to

Safety Culture

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Philosophical Shift of Integrating Safety into

the Organization

• Mutuality

• Linking of knowledge bases

• Approaches

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Questions

EHSQ Community Webinars:

Organizational Behavior and Corporate Culture: The impact on Safety Management and Practices:

https://community.intelex.com/library/peer-resources/organizational-behavior-and-corporate-culture-impact-

safety-management-and

"Are we taking safety too personally?" Controlling Major Risks Through Systems Thinking:

https://community.intelex.com/library/peer-resources/are-we-taking-safety-too-personally-controlling-major-

risks-through-systems

Member Articles:

1. Interdisciplinarity: Increasing Safety Performance: http://www.asse.org/assets/1/7/F1_1116.pdf

2. Corporate Culture: Examining its effects on safety performance:

http://aeasseincludes.asse.org/professionalsafety/pastissues/053/11/F3_Erickson_1108.pdf

3. Plan, Do, Hope, Pray is Not a Safety System: https://community.intelex.com/explore/posts/plan-do-

hope-pray-not-safety-system

4. Safety Management Systems: Form vs. Function: https://community.intelex.com/explore/posts/safety-

management-systems-form-vs-function

5. Is 'Safety Culture' Dead?: https://community.intelex.com/explore/posts/safety-culture-dead

Resources

Objective 1

Goals

Strategies

Tactics

Measures

Contact

Judith Erickson, PhD

[email protected]

Jim Loud

[email protected]

Dave Rebbitt

[email protected]

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