Promotion of safety culture within serbian regulatory framework

Abstract

The paper explains the concept of Safety Culture as the most important condition of successful functioning of an organization, since the Safety Management System cannot be effective without a positive Safety Culture. The five main components of Safety Culture are described: Reporting Culture, Just Culture, Flexible Culture, Learning Culture and Informed Culture. The emphasis is on the concept of Just Culture, because the information that are obtained by reporting occurrences and motivating employees to do so, are much more useful for safety improvement than punishment of employees, which leads to information concealment and hence to endangering the safety. Finally, the paper provides important issues of the promotion of safety culture within Serbian regulatory framework.