Study of work safety culture in the company

Abstract

The article presents a discussion on the essence and scope of the concept of work safety culture and indicates the importance of this phenom-enon in the process of increasing work safety and security in a company. Se-lected classifications of safety culture factors are described, and the more im-portant ones are characterized. In particular, attention is paid to the issues of analyzing and developing work safety culture. The aim of the article is to pres-ent the concept of diagnosing work safety culture in a modern company and the conditions for its implementation. The results of empirical research obtained with the use of the abovementioned analysis methodology are also presented. In the process of diagnosing the culture of occupational safety, the case study method and the technique of document analysis as well as discussions and in-terviews with management and employees were used. The article concludes with general substantive recommendations and methodological guidelines for companies.

Keywords

• work safety culture
• fundamental company values
• analysis of safety culture factors