Advancing New Frontiers in OHS
Maturing Safety Systems
This document provides an overview of a safety systems maturity approach to developing the safety journey in organisations. All organisations develop in life cycles and progressions. The developmental life of an organisation can be compared to the development of any organism and in an holistic sense can mature or stagnate depending on a range of influences in leadership, history, crises, management styles, human resource management, culture and organisational life. A safety systems maturity approach to OHS recognises the fundamentals of systems maturity modelling as applied to the development of the Total Safety Organisation (TSO – Weick).
The safety systems maturity approach to OHS assesses where an organisation is on the journey to becoming a TSO, maps the cultural drivers of safety culture and targets interventions at the stage of maturity most relevant to that organisation. This approach does not presume that there is one packaged approach to safety systems development but rather that safety systems are “situated” and that much of the new frontiers in safety systems are in the human and cultural dimensions or organisations. This is the approach of Human Dymensions Pty Ltd as is outlined in this document.
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