Here we are moving rapidly through 2014, last week I heard someone blurt out “Are we in April already?”. Yes we are here and in some cases it has been painful. To date we have had a number of work-related accidents and fatalities including those associated with road crashes.
In this issue we look at Safety Culture which is a major contributor to why people get hurt at work. The simplest definition of Safety Culture I’ve heard is “Making sure people are not harmed is how we do things around here”. This was from an organisation that operates and manages processes with the potential to adversely affect human life. Since the Chernobyl disaster and the subsequent report on the findings, the term Safety Culture has taken on a whole new meaning. In our region our culture as a people is tied directly into our work culture.