Predicting and Preventing Organizational Failure: Learning, Stability and Safety Culture

Abstract

The physical definition of "safety culture" is the creation of an organizational and operational structure that places unending emphasis on safety at every level. We propose and prefer the use of the term and the objective of sustaining a "Learning Environment", where mistakes, outcomes and errors are used as learning vehicles to improve, and we can now define why that is true. Therefore we can manage and quantify safety effectively tracking and analyzing outcomes, using the trends to guide our needed organizational behaviors.