What is the definition of safety culture?

To define safety culture, we need to refer to the concept of culture first. At present, the definition of culture is above 10C. Obviously, different angles, different fields and different application purposes have different understandings and definitions of culture. In the field of safety production, the meaning of culture is generally understood in a broad sense. Here, culture is not only synonymous with education, literature, literature and knowledge. Broadly speaking, "culture is the sum of spirit and material created by human activities". Due to different understanding of culture, there will be different definitions of safety culture. At present, there are many definitions of safety culture, which is a normal phenomenon in the development of safety culture theory. Summarizing some experts' expositions, there are generally two categories: "generalized theory" and "narrow theory".

The definition of "narrow sense theory" emphasizes a certain level of cultural or security connotation, such as humanistic quality and corporate culture category. For example, 199 1, the international safety and nuclear safety advisory group gave the definition of safety culture in the "75-INSAG-4" review report: safety culture is the sum of various qualities and attitudes existing in units and individuals, and it established an overwhelming concept that the safety of nuclear power plants should be paid due attention to because of its importance. Professor Cao Qi of Southwest Jiaotong University put forward the definition of safety culture on the basis of analyzing the essential safety quality structure of employees at all levels in enterprises: safety culture is the sum of safety values and safety behavior norms. Safety values refer to the internal structure of safety culture, and safety code of conduct refers to the surface structure of safety culture. It is pointed out that the background of China's safety culture has the characteristics of modern industrial social life, modern industrial production and modern enterprise management. Both of the above definitions have the characteristics of emphasizing humanistic quality. Secondly, there is a definition that safety culture is a part of social culture and enterprise culture, especially taking enterprise safety production as the research field and accident prevention as the main goal. Or think: safety culture is a safety activity carried out through safety propaganda, safety education, safety literature and art, safety literature and other cultural means. These two definitions mainly emphasize the application fields and means of safety culture.

The "generalized theory" gives a generalized solution to the two concepts of "security" and "culture". Safety includes not only production safety, but also life and entertainment. The concept of culture includes not only humanistic aspects such as concept culture, behavior culture and management culture, but also hardware aspects such as material state culture and environmental culture. Have the following broad definitions.