April Greene, CSP, CHMM

Session Objectives:

• Identify the ten attributes of a best-in-class safety culture and explain how they interconnect to improve organizational performance.
• Evaluate organizational safety culture using the framework as a self-assessment tool, highlighting strengths and opportunities for growth.
• Develop a Safety Culture Plan that incorporates the ten attributes and actions to help ensure effective implementation, and apply practical strategies to strengthen cultural resilience, reduce risk, and encourage a sustainable transformation to a best-in-class safety culture.

Topic:

High-profile incidents in industries from energy to manufacturing demonstrate that safety compliance alone is not enough—organizational culture determines whether safety systems thrive or fail. Consistent with OSHA’s Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs and ISO 45001, this session outlines a practical framework for building a best-in-class safety culture focused on ten key attributes: leadership, values, goals and initiatives, organization and structure, employee engagement, resource allocation, systems and standards, metrics and reporting, continual learning, and verification and auditing. This presentation will help professionals create a Safety Culture Action Plan that moves the organization beyond short-term initiatives toward sustainable cultural excellence through proven implementation techniques. Participants will gain actionable insights to strengthen their own safety cultures, improve safety outcomes, reduce incidents, and create organizational resilience.