There seems to be a movement within the safety community that proposes that there is no "safety culture" or "culture of safety" within workplaces.  After all, I have seen and lived over the past 30+ years; I find this difficult to believe.  Just because we can't see a "culture," although I believe we can certainly see one or feel a culture, again, I believe we most certainly can feel it, that somehow one does not exist.  I am certain I could take ten safety professionals with 15+ years of experience and visit ten different facilities. We would all agree on which facilities had a safety culture or culture of safety.  We can determine this quickly by touring the facilities and interviewing facility personnel.  I am serious; most facilities will take less than 4 hours, and some may take a bit more time, but I am sure that out of the ten safety pro's involved in the evaluation, most, if not all, would walk away convinced of what they saw and heard as to the status of the facility's safety culture or culture of safety.

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