
The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast
The Rail Safety and Standards Board Podcast
Safety Culture - The Role of Leaders
Safety Culture is everybody's business. In the first of a new series Ellie Burrows, Chair of the System Safety Risk Group, talks about the role of leaders in embedding safety culture. She describes the need for a fair culture and how that works to support safety learning.
01:43 Ellie Burrows, an introduction
02:20 What Safety Culture means to Ellie
03:54 Ellie’s role in leading and supporting the development of Safety Culture
04:56 The essential tasks for leaders of Safety Culture
06:07 Traits and characteristics for leaders of Safety Culture
07:39 The need for fair culture to build trust
08:39 The need for good understanding of fair culture and human factors
10:01 How fair culture works
11:35 The actions, policies, and practices that demonstrate a fair culture
13:05 Summary and close
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Leading Health and Safety on Britain’s Railway
Developing a Fair Culture – RSSB Training
Fair Culture Investigations – Network Rail Safety Central web page