Research on the safety culture in medium and small enterprises

Abstract

Economic development is often accompanied by a variety of production safety accidents. Currently, human factors have become the main constraint on safety for enterprises, especially small and medium-sized. Establishing corporate safety culture is an important approach to addressing that issue and improving the intrinsic safety level of enterprises. In this paper, an element system for safety culture construction, containing eight primary elements and 32 secondary elements, for medium and small enterprises was put forward according to the actual situation of safety production in enterprises in industrial parks using an expert survey method. This system integrated the construction of safety culture into the existing management system and specific safety work so that it had good implementability. Then, using SPSSAU online analysis software, expert surveys, and analytic hierarchy process (AHP), as well as the expert survey method, weights and rankings of every element of this safety culture element construction system were determined, which could provide a reference for the efficient of the safety culture construction. It is very important to evaluate the enterprise safety culture construction. Here, a set of quantitative evaluation methods was proposed, which combined a direct quantitative evaluation for secondary elements and a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method for the primary elements and the whole safety culture construction. This method can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of enterprise safety culture construction, identify weaknesses and continuously improve, and could also serve as a reference for government regulatory agencies, insurance companies, or third-party organizations to assess enterprise security.