Excerpted from their book, “Strategic Safety Culture Roadmap.” Available to be downloaded at www.behavioral-safety.com
Improving a safety culture requires a set of change management processes to be employed to ensure that any significant change initiatives are rolled-out in a controlled and systematic manner. This means a comprehensive strategy should be designed to lead to the desired changes so the new arrangements are understood and enacted by all concerned. Table 1 shows the typical strategic features involved in rolling-out any change initiative based on research which indicates the most effective approach is to structure the changes using the following sequence: [1] Exploration; [2] Planning; [3] Action; and [4] Integration[i],[ii].