“\"Ten Sentences\" tells you how to build a strong safety culture

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1. The highest level of a safe workplace culture is when the work place becomes one’s second home, as warm and secure as a home. Therefore, to create a safety culture, it is necessary to elevate the mindset to regard the \"workplace\" as a \"home\". Maintain and create with love. 2. Embracing a safety culture means fostering a sense of recognition and belonging toward safety management concepts. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out effective publicity and education efforts to establish a safety culture, and to secure the acceptance of all personnel, whether they are employees of the organization itself or those from related organizations and groups. 3. A safety culture for all means that everyone should understand the core safety principles of their organization, be aware of their role in ensuring safe production, be able to practice safe production practices, and be able to contribute their skills to the process of establishing such a culture. 4. The purpose of promoting a safety culture in work safety is to establish standardization in safety management, improve the level of safety management, and ultimately achieve safe production. Therefore, in the process of building a safety culture, it is essential to ensure safe production and prevent any industrial accidents; any signs of such accidents must be eliminated at an early stage. 5. An accessible and easy-to-understand safety culture is not about theoretical exploration; it is primarily about practical application. Therefore, such a culture should avoid using vague or complicated terms as well as fancy wording, so that employees in the organization can understand it easily. Whether they are educated or not, everyone should be able to comprehend it and adhere to it conscientiously. 6. Upholding a safety culture in the long term does not mean making changes frequently or adapting it to individual shifts; rather, it requires continuous improvement without distortion. There should be no short-term campaigns, nor should it be completely rejected. It is necessary to stick to the established safety principles and concepts from start to finish, as only in this way can a unique safety culture be developed. 7. Ensuring the establishment of a safety culture to the greatest extent possible represents an extension and deepening of safety management. Leaders must attach great importance to this, provide understanding and support, and offer resources in terms of finance, materials, and manpower. All departments should cooperate with one another to offer support, while the safety department must maintain a firm belief in success and not shy away from challenges or difficulties in the implementation process, pushing for its adoption steadfastly. Employees, on their part, must carry out their own safety-related tasks with utmost diligence. 8. When establishing a safety culture, it is necessary to take into account the actual characteristics of the enterprise, such as its size, nature, level of culture, and the length of time since it was established. Implementation should not be carried out blindly, nor should it involve copying approaches from other enterprises. 9. In building a safety culture that is both material and spiritual in nature, it is important to make use of economic incentives to recognize those who perform well and hold back those who fall short, thereby creating a model effect that encourages those behind to catch up with those ahead. Even in organizations with poor financial conditions, where material rewards are not possible, spiritual rewards should still be provided to acknowledge those who perform well, thereby fostering a positive atmosphere throughout the organization. 10. Summarize, refine, and institutionalize efforts to promote a safety culture. It is important to be good at summarizing, extracting and elevating the positive aspects to develop a safety management model with the characteristics of one’s own organization, then institutionalize this model and promote it throughout the organization while making continuous improvements, thus establishing a solid safety culture.