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Managing Integrity
Topic 5 – Corporate Safety Culture
• The development of a strong corporate safety
culture on a plant is just as important to asset
integrity as is the design of sound facilities and
development of the right work processes.
• The safety culture which is driven by the shared
values at all levels of management and employees,
serves to reinforce subconscious beliefs and
therefore decision making related to asset integrity
at all levels.
• Many integrity failures (up to 80%) have their root
either in part or wholly in human factors. Against
that background, it is clear that significant benefits
would be derived from ensuring that there is a
strong safety culture which is clearly understood at
all levels and which translates into consistent and
positive behaviour.
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Asset Integrity Guide
• A workforce that is convinced the organisation
fully supports safety and asset integrity as a core
value will tend to do the right things, in the right
way, at the right time - even when no one else is
looking. The perception of risk across all levels at a
plant is also a good insight into the overall culture.
Do they feel they are safer than other plants or
do they recognise that they operate with a higher
than typical level of risk; how well do the workforce
feel that this is being managed? Has an abnormal
increased risk become the accepted normal
condition?
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