I've not looked at the article yet, but (in my opinion) we've made huge strides toward a more positive H&S culture in our workplace over the last few years. We kicked it off with an overall review and clear out of silly rules and pointless paperwork. It might not work for all, but for us the admittance that we were burdened with overcomplicated and pointless procedures that were of limited value and we were going to involve everyone in creating procedures that the team bought into and thought worthwhile and throw out the rest really got people on board.

Ian You wrote: 'I now want to put a brief forwards to the senior team to involve them more in positive safety culture I am looking at employee questionnaires, employee recognition schemes, group discussions, employee led planning meetings project teams Do you have any other ideas please?' Is it not very odd that you explicitly state that you wish to 'involve' the senior team 'more' in 'positive safety culture' yet may no mention whatsoever of specific ways of doing so? Is it possible to 'involve them more' by EXcluding the senior team from actions you initiate? As the research by Dominic Cooper and others indicate, the most cost-effective method of developing a safety culture is to train people to observe behaviour at work validly (i.e. reliably and accurately) and to provide valid feedback regularly on the ratio of safe/unsafe behaviours Cooper and others emphasise how including senior managers in this process of training, and of measurement, make critical differences to effective outcomes