The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast

Safety Culture - The Role of Leaders

August 25, 2022 RSSB Season 1 Episode 46
The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast
Safety Culture - The Role of Leaders
Show Notes

Safety Culture is everybody's business. In the first of a new series Ellie Burrows, Chair of the System Safety Risk Group, talks about the role of leaders in embedding safety culture. She describes the need for a fair culture and how that works to support safety learning.

01:43 Ellie Burrows, an introduction

02:20 What Safety Culture means to Ellie

03:54 Ellie’s role in leading and supporting the development of Safety Culture

04:56 The essential tasks for leaders of Safety Culture

06:07 Traits and characteristics for leaders of Safety Culture

07:39 The need for fair culture to build trust

08:39 The need for good understanding of fair culture and human factors

10:01 How fair culture works

11:35 The actions, policies, and practices that demonstrate a fair culture

13:05 Summary and close

 

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Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railway

Developing a Fair Culture – RSSB Training

Supporting a fair culture - creating appropriate plans after incidents – RSSB research project (T1068)

Fair Culture Investigations – Network Rail Safety Central web page