Program development for fostering safety culture in multi-tiered organizations

-Finding and solving interorganizational issues-

Abstract

Although there have been some studies on safety culture, studies on specific methods to foster safety culture have been limited. Moreover, it is deemed necessary to assess and foster safety cultures not only for individual organizations but also inter-organizationally. In this study, we developed a program to foster safety culture. Thereafter, we applied the program to multi-tiered industrial organizations. Hence, this paper focuses on interorganizational approaches. The program consisted of multiple questionnaire surveys, interview surveys, group works, and monitoring surveys. The subjects of the surveys were members of energy plants. As a result, in general, improvements in the safety culture evaluation were seen after the implementation of countermeasures. In the program consisting of multiple surveys and activities, a certain effect of fostering safety culture in multi-tiered organizations was recognized. Henceforth, more studies will be required on the means of assessing and fostering safety cultures in multi-tiered industrial organizations of various types.