Successful safety performance will come about with a successful safety culture. It takes the values set by management to determine the way that the workforce acts. Therefore, a safety conscience culture has to be established through the management and passed along to the workforce. Here are a few steps to help create a safety culture: · Present workplace safety as a continuous process and not just a compliance requirement · Actively encourage workers to improve safety performance, and recognize improvements · Involve the employees in the safety decision making process · Use accident investigations as action planning, not fault-finding missions · Explain why new safety processes have been implemented and how to measure its success · Investigate “near-misses” as indicators of a series of events and not as a one-time or isolated event · When accidents or “near-misses” occur look first at why the safety process failed instead of looking to place blame. | 
