PMC 24: Safety Culture

Safety culture in project management in my memory,

1 The wake-up slogan “Give up all freedom when entering the refinery”, Sinopec hard box, 1990.

2. "Mobile phones and other personal belongings were locked in a guard box outside the factory" in a petrified hard box, 2007.

3. Emergency case system designed by BASF and other owners, German Hardcore, 2012.

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The origin and basic content of safety culture

by Sun Guoting

This is not an era of cultural explosion, this is an era of cultural penetration. Culture is the backbone of a nation and the blood of an enterprise.

The reason why culture is important to enterprises is that culture is a cohesive force. An organization without culture is a gang; only an enterprise with culture can be called a team. The two major characteristics of a team are that it has rules and goals. For enterprises, culture is the messenger that establishes rules and sets goals.

Due to the nature of production and manufacturing in production-oriented enterprises, highly dangerous operation modes such as machinery, chemical industry, and electric power are inevitable. Safety culture is the dominant content of written corporate culture.

1. The origin of safety culture

The concept of "safety culture" originated from the Soviet Union's Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Cherbyli on April 26, 1986. Serious leaks and explosions in power plants. The leaked radiation dust dispersed in the atmosphere, reaching the western regions of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other places have been severely polluted. The accident resulted in the death of 31 people on the spot, and tens of thousands of people died or became seriously ill due to the long-term effects of radioactive materials. To this day, fetuses with malformations are still being born due to the effects of radioactive materials. After the nuclear leakage, the former Soviet Union evacuated more than 110,000 people. In the following years, another 230,000 people were relocated from heavily polluted areas, and more than 340,000 people were evacuated in the following years. The number of people who died directly or indirectly as a result of the accident is difficult to estimate, and the long-term effects after the accident are still unknown.

In the same year, the "Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident Review Conference" convened by the International Atomic Energy Agency recognized the impact of "nuclear safety culture" on nuclear industry accidents. The American NASA agency applies safety culture to aerospace safety management. The concept of "safety culture" has gradually become clearer.

In the past 30 years, the concept of safety culture has gradually improved, with richer content, more specific research, and more scientific application.

2. Contents of safety culture

1. Establish safety concept and improve safety awareness

The establishment of safety concept is to combine the concept of "safety culture" with It is the first step to concretize and formalize the concept of nothingness. An enterprise's safety concept should be a text that reflects the core of an enterprise's spirit, can represent the image of the enterprise, embody the values ??of an enterprise, and is also an enterprise's attitude towards life.

A good security concept does not depend on how gorgeous the words are or how melodious the rhyme is; nor does it depend on how numerous the items are and how broad the coverage is. Rather, it lies in whether it can represent the essence of the enterprise, whether it can fit the actual situation of the enterprise, and whether it can guide employees' thinking.

A good safety concept should be able to improve employees’ safety awareness, influence their behavior and even their outlook on life and values.

2. Establish rules and systems to constrain behavioral norms

As the old saying goes, "No rules, no rules." Personally, I believe that the process of establishing a rules system is first of all a process of finding appropriate rules. Only with appropriate rules can we draw just the right square and circle. "There are no two identical leaves in the world." Every enterprise has its own characteristics, so rules and regulations can only be learned from but cannot be copied.

The purpose of establishing rules and regulations is, first, to constrain behavior so that employees "know what to do and what not to do"; second, to guide behavior so that employees know when and who should do what.

3. Provide safety methods to promote the progress of all employees

I have to say that the four words "pay attention to safety" alone are empty words without substantial content.

When we talk about these four words, the premise should be that both parties can understand and understand the two aspects of "what to pay attention to safety" and "how to pay attention to safety". How to achieve intrinsic safety is a subject that enterprise decision-making, leadership and executive levels need to continuously learn and improve. Therefore, only by providing safe methods can employees have room for improvement. Provide guarantee for safe production.

4. Create a safe environment and combine software and hardware to ensure safety.

The improvement of safety awareness requires comprehensive influence from many aspects. It not only requires system management, training and education, but also requires continuous and continuous ideological indoctrination and the improvement and update of production equipment and technology.

Creating a safe environment can be divided into two aspects: soft and hard.

The soft environment is to create pervasive security promotion opportunities. Make safety a wake-up call that reminds you at all times and cannot be slacked off for a moment.

For the hard environment, we start with production equipment and technology to eliminate safety hazards and avoid safety accidents.

Looking at the Tibetan movie "Red River Valley" and the recently released "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the evolution of organisms towards dangers and threats has evolved from passive acceptance to counterattack to active prevention and attack.

The goal of safety culture is to gradually change the awareness of employees from passive "I want safety" to "I want safety" through the operation of the system, and then achieve "I know how to be safe, I can be safe", Enable enterprises to meet "intrinsically safe" standards.

The operation of safety culture requires respect for the enterprise, respect for employees, and even more respect for life.