Guidance

A 'just culture': improving safety and organisational performance

An information sheet for middle to senior management who want to establish and support an effective safety culture.

From:
Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Published
6 May 2014

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An effective safety culture is necessary for operating safely. It means organisations must be able to learn from their mistakes and continuously improve. Underpinning this is the concept of a 鈥榡ust culture鈥�.

This information sheet covers:

  • on-board 鈥榮afety culture鈥�, which is essential to safe operations
  • 鈥榡ust culture鈥�, which sees human error as a way for organisations and staff to learn and improve

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Published 6 May 2014

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