DuPont’s safety curve
This curve strategy is a model used to understand and improve workplace safety culture by assessing the maturity of safety practices. This strategy can be applied individually and within an organization. The curve describes the journey organizations typically undergo as they advance in their safety culture, strongly linked to employee engagement and organizational attitudes toward safety.
Know Your Safety Stages
Here are 4 safety stages that are described to control Accidents, Incidents, and Mishaps when you adopt these stages.
Reactive
- Safety by Natural Instinct
- Action against restrictions
- Compliance is the Goal
- Blaming that, this is not only my duty
- Delegated to Safety Manager
- Lack of Management Involvement
Dependent
- Waiting for orders
- It’s a senior’s duty
- Management Commitment
- Training
- Rules & Procedures
- Supervisor control, emphasis, and goals
- Conditions of Employment
- Fear/Discipline
- Expectations
Independent
- Personal Knowledge,
- Commitment & Standards
- Internalization
- Personal Value
- Care of Self
Proactive
- Help Others Conform
- Others Keeper
- Network Contributor
- Care for Others
- Organizational Pride
- Practice, Habits
- Individual Recognition