The evolution of organizational safety culture: A theoretical study

The study of organizational safety culture can be divided into the static study and the dynamic study. Many of its static studies have been carried out which focused on its definition, structure, construction, assessment and its impact on organizational safety performance. Unfortunately, the dynamic studies of organizational safety culture focusing on its evolution are relatively few, and the satisfying model for the evolution of organizational safety culture based on organizational safety culture itself is still missing. The main objective of this paper is to build a model for the evolution of organizational safety culture based on organizational safety culture itself compared with the existing models for the evolution of organizational safety culture, and a new Safety Culture Maturity (SCM) model in the organization is built. Meanwhile, the routes of the evolution of organizational safety culture are put forward, including the natural evolution and the mandatory evolution.Keywords: organizational safety culture; evolution; Safety Culture Maturity