Judith Erickson Ph.D.

During the past 20 years there has been increasing evidence of the role that corporate, or organizational, culture plays in determining safety performance.

A three-year nationwide study explored the effects of corporate culture on the level of safety performance (Erick¬son, 1994).

For many years safety and health professionals, and the companies that employ them, have been diligently seeking the most effective means of achieving and sustaining high safety performance.

Judith A. Erickson, Ph.D., writes that Heinrich’s conclusions about worker injury causes were based on thousands of accident reports completed by supervisors who usually blamed employees for causing their accident.