Workplace Safety and Health Culture Development

Create and maintain a Workplace Safety and Health culture based on a common set of attitudes, behaviours and competencies

Type

Functional

Competency Area

Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Management

Levels

Support Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) culture programme

Adhere to WSH policy and procedures

Report unsafe behaviour and work practices

Escalate issues adhering to WSH policy and procedures

Participate in and promote WSH culture building programmes

Collaborate with stakeholders to promote the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) culture programme

Implement WSH culture programme within own work area

Promote the benefits of a positive WSH culture within own work area

Communicate potential barriers to WSH culture development in the organisation

Develop and review the effectiveness of the organisation’s Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) culture programme

Conduct a WSH culture assessment for an organisation

Examine the organisation’s WSH culture to propose areas of improvement

Monitor the implementation of WSH culture programmes

Record changes and disruptions to WSH culture development in the organisation

Lead the creation of a Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) culture within the organisation

Formulate a suite of culture building initiatives to improve or enhance the WSH culture of the organisation

Develop a WSH culture programme based on identified strengths and areas of improvement

Justify rationale for WSH culture building to management

Evaluate WSH culture building programmes

Transform the organisation's Workplace, Safety and Health (WSH) culture

Cascade the benefits of WSH to management

Motivate senior executives to adhere and promote WSH policies and programmes

Encourage the generation of WSH change and innovation ideas

Facilitate translation of WSH innovations into practical and operational concepts

Minimise barriers to implement WSH change and innovation

Collaborate with senior management to align WSH policies with organisational vision, mission and values

Establish a no-blame culture and empower others to intervene in the presence of unsafe

behaviours and practices