The relationship between the development of a safety culture and the implementation of safety requirements in organisations

Purpose. To establish the relationship between the development of a safety culture in an organisation and the fulfilment of occupational safety requirements. Methodology. To solve the tasks set, we use the method of scientific synthesis, which allows us to obtain new knowledge as a result of combining previously dismembered parts of the subject into a single whole, to determine mutual expectations in occupational health and safety (OHS) management systems (MS). Findings. It is proposed to determine the level of safety culture of an organisation on the basis of five stages: indifference, reaction, dependence, independence, interdependence, which characterises a change in the awareness of employees of the organization to fulfil the requirements for OHS of employees. A process for determining the level of safety culture is proposed by identifying the attitude to the fulfilment of OHS requirements by an OHS specialist, a manager of a unit (organisation), employees’ self-awareness and mutual assistance of employees to fulfil OHS requirements. The coefficient of fulfilment of the requirements for OHS of employees in a conditional unit was calculated, which allows determining the stage of development of safety culture and the contribution of each employee to the development of safety culture. A distribution of preventive measures to improve OHS level, based on the level of development of safety culture, is proposed. Originality. The relationship is identified between the coefficient of compliance with occupational safety requirements and employee health and the stages of development of safety culture, taking into account the impact on employee compliance from managers of a units, OHS specialists, self-awareness and mutual assistance through weighting coefficients. Practical value. Recommendations are developed to increase the effectiveness of OHS MS by strengthening the implementation of OHS requirements by changing their attitude to OHS issues, by introducing preventive measures in accordance with the development of safety culture.