What is Safety Culture

The concept of safety culture was first introduced by the International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group (INSAG) in 1986, in response to the Chernobyl accident, in the report INSAG-1 (later updated to INSAG-7), which mentioned that "there were significant safety culture problems in the Soviet nuclear safety system." The report (INSAG-4), published in 1991, defines safety culture as the sum of the qualities and attitudes that exist in units and individuals. Culture is a general term for the spiritual and material wealth of mankind. Safety culture, like other cultures, is a product of human civilization, and the safety culture of an enterprise is to provide a guarantee of safe production for the enterprise in its production, life and survival activities.

Safety is proposed from the point of view of human physical and mental needs, and is aimed at human beings and things directly or indirectly related to human body and mind. However, safety can not be directly perceived by people, can be directly perceived by people are dangers, risks, accidents, disasters, losses, injuries and so on.

Safety culture is a general term for safety concept, safety awareness and behaviors under its guidance, which mainly includes safety concept, behavioral safety, system safety, process safety and so on. Safety culture is mainly applicable to high-tech, high-risk operation-oriented enterprises, the importance of which is particularly prominent in the energy, power, chemical industry. All accidents can be prevented and all safety operation hazards can be controlled. The core of the safety culture is people-oriented, which requires the implementation of safety responsibilities to the specific work of the entire staff of the enterprise, through the cultivation of employees *** with the recognition of the safety values and safety code of conduct, to create a self-restraint, self-management and team management of the safety culture within the enterprise, and ultimately to achieve continuous improvement of safety performance, the establishment of a long-term mechanism of safety production goals.

Safety culture is in the course of human survival, reproduction and development, in all areas of production, life and even practice, in order to safeguard human physical and mental safety (including health) and enable them to safely, comfortably and efficiently engage in all activities, prevention, avoidance, control and elimination of accidents and disasters (natural, manmade, or man-made natural disasters); in order to establish a safe, reliable, harmonious, Coordination of the environment and match the operation of the security system; in order to make human beings become more secure, well-being, longevity, so that the world becomes friendly, peace, prosperity and the creation of the sum of security material wealth and spiritual wealth.