Cut And Paste Case Analysis

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT

BMFG 4662

TEST

SEM. 1 - SESI 2014/2015

Instructions:

This is an open book test. You may refer to any sources, as long as it is cited and paraphrased properly. “Cut and Paste” is strictly prohibited.

This test should be hand written.

Please submit the answers to my office by 9am, Monday, Nov 24th.

1) The safety culture in different industries can be different from one another. For example, aviation and manufacturing are two different industries and their understanding of safety culture could be different.

a) Compare and contrast the concept of safety culture in aviation and manufacturing industries. Use appropriate examples to illustrate your points. Preferably, use examples

Organizational culture promotes belongingness safe, trust and participation. Employees generated through the integration and membership in the organization. They remind each other about the importance of safety and facilitate interactions through teamwork. Safety culture also provides the shared values and beliefs that help employees to realize the organization's safety and provide them with guidelines for their security practices within the organization. In addition, it emphasizes broad participation by employees in safety activities and establish channels of communication to disseminate safety information. It is important to maintain focus on internal organizational security standards. In an organization with a culture of safety, safety in the workplace has never compromised with productivity. Leaders lead by demonstrating the safety of employees is of value to them and to the organization. They make sure the workplace is safe for employees to perform their duties. Therefore, employees will have more confidence to do their jobs and improve their productivity. It promotes safety in the sense of empowerment and self belongingness.. the roles of safety culture can be summarized as

Current standards for quality, environment and occupational health and safety (ISO, 2008, 2004) have been made compatible with each other to enable organisations to align or integrate the various management systems in case they wish to do so. (A.L.C. Roelen, M.B. Klompstra, 2012)In case of aviation safety, the severity of the harm is described by International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO)’s definition of an accident as an occurrence resulting in fatalities, serious injuries or severe damage to the aircraft (ICAO, 2001). Using this definition, we can define aviation safety as the absence of an unacceptable accident probability, and safety performance can be described as the accident probability that is achieved in relation to the accident probability that is considered acceptable. Therefore, aviation safety performance indicators should provide an indication of the probability of an