Guidance
Safety culture information paper
Safety culture information paper
- NOPSEMA
- Guidance
- N-06300-IP1506
- Human FactorsLeadership and Culture
- Human factorsLeadership and safety culture
- Management of change
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
Explains NOPSEMA’s non-mandatory safety culture model, linking executive commitment and behaviour with leadership practices, organisational systems, working environments and safety outcomes. Drawing on Schein’s cultural layers, it uses contrasting fictional petroleum companies to illustrate how shared assumptions shape reporting behaviour and the effectiveness of safety improvement initiatives.
Classifications: Human factors; human performance; ergonomics.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Management of change; MOC; change management.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Summary
Presents a model of safety culture and explains how organisations can use it to improve safety outcomes.
N-06300-IP1506. Themes: human factors, leadership and culture.