Posted By Ashley Williams Does anyone have any information on the differences in safety culture between Small and Large organisations and the reasons for the differences.

Posted By Marie T I firmly believe that the safety culture of a company is the result of the safety beliefs of a few elite individuals (senior managemnt. Size really isn't a factor. If senior management share healthy safety views, this will have a most definate and postive impact on the company's safety culture. On the other hand, if senior management has strong negative beliefs such as the "blame the worker effect," these safety attitudes will trickle down to the rest of the company and most likely create a distancing relationship between supervisor and employee when it comes to safety concerns. I've worked in a company with approximately 1400 employees. Senior mangement had rather old traditional safety views. Although the Safety Coordinator did everything possible to affect/change senior mangement's safety attitude, this was always unsuccessful. It was evident that the Safety Coordinator was simply for show. You know what they say, behaviour is difficult to change after the age of 4. This can definately be the case for some companies which make our job ever so challenging. Marie