Signs that suggest a poor culture

The symptoms of a poor health and safety cultural include:
• Widespread, routine procedural violations;
• Failure to comply with health and safety systems;
• Management decisions that put production or cost before safety.
These conditions can be difficult to detect because a poor culture not only contributes to their occurrence, it also means that people may be inclined to hide or cover-up violations and unsafe practices.

Reference – ‘Inspectors human factors toolkit - Common topic 4: Safety culture’ available free from http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/comah/common4.pdf