Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / Safety culture is a multi-layered dynamic concept, meaning that it is not only the aspects pertaining
to compliance with compulsory legislation, but also many other non-compulsory safety
management and leadership initiatives, which enhance the companies’ safety performance. Most
of the available literature focuses on a safety climate, which is an aggregate measure of employee
attitude and opinion regarding safety. This paper presents the zero harm safety culture, a common
contextual framework, taking readers beyond the traditional safety climate metrics and presenting
a variety of assessment and analytical tools for each level of the framework. Techniques used to
transform the safety culture toward a state of zero harm are explored in this research report.
Finally, 26-components exist in a zero harm safety framework, to illustrate the development and
application of a zero harm safety culture in the mining industry.
It is also worth mentioning that the most important element of clearly perceived leadership has
been found to be neglected in the past and resulted in persistence of incidents leading to fatalities.
This important factor, which requires constant leadership interaction, is what makes or breaks the
zero harm safety culture framework. Hence, it is crucial that organisations appoint leaders in
positions influencing direction of the safety culture, and that these individuals are committed to the
drive towards zero harm. This would assist leaders in the mining industry, especially small mines
where resources are scarce, to apply the zero harm framework in such a way that the drive
towards a zero harm safety culture becomes a reality. When considering implementing the zero
harm safety framework in any mining company, irrespective of its size, a successful safety culture
can be accomplished realistically within three to five. This paper also provides a series of
recommendations to help implement this framework.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:sun/oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/95610 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Redelinghuys, Paul |
| Contributors | Mathur-Helm, Babita, Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Graduate School of Business. |
| Publisher | Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | xii, 89 p. : col. ill. |
| Rights | Stellenbosch University |
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