Grainger releases white paper on building a sustainable safety culture in time for National Safety Month
Paper examines safety culture as a critical concept for explaining, understanding and preventing workplace accidents
Grainger (NYSE: GWW), the leading broad line supplier of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products serving businesses and institutions, today released a new white paper titled “How We Should Talk about Safety Culture: Rewriting the Conversation,” in conjunction with National Safety Month in June.
Published on The Safety Record SM by Grainger, the white paper introduces a new model that defines safety culture as an outcome of what management says about safety and what workers see, rather than a starting point that regulates safety practices. With the outcome model as a guide, safety leaders can be more proactive – recognizing safety improvements as an economic and competitive opportunity – as opposed to viewing safety as a cost or threat and taking a day- to-day reactive approach.