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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
EHSQ Community Thought Leadership Discussion sponsored by Intelex Technologies | In Partnership with Erickson Associates
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
EHSQ Community Thought Leadership Discussion sponsored by Intelex Technologies | In Partnership with Erickson Associates
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
Jim Loud
Dave Rebbitt
About
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An OSHA Co-sponsor
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