An investigation on the relationship between error culture and safety outcomes among employees of a petrochemical industry

Background and Objective: Human errors for long time have been on spotlight of safety and Ergonomics experts due to accidents and disrupted performance, planning, and human projections. After the failure of the theory of zero-error culture, new approaches management with a positive look at the error, the human and the system introduces. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between culture of fault and safety consequences among employees in a petrochemical industry. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a cross-sectional that was run among random sample of 424 individuals who were the employees of a petrochemical industry.. EOQ contained 5 scale and 19 items in Likret scale.Safety outcomes which includes events that occurred during past year, was assessed with four questions about the self-report. The Chi-square test was used to analyze the data, and to determine significant relationships. RESULTS: The mean of (EOQ) total score was 69.91 with a standard deviation of 7.34. The results of the Chi-square test of EOQ Score with minor injuries, serious injuries and damage to equip-ment revealed significant relationships. A significant relationship has been found between some error culture scale and safety outcomes. CONCLUSION: The result show the relationship between error culture and reduction of safety out-comes, our results are in line with previous research suggesting that an organizational climate of open communication with a focus on problem-solving and learning is vital to safety. We hope that future research by overcoming on limitations and shortcomings of the present study, with confirming of the findings of this study, introduced the error culture as an effective factor on safety. Language: fa