Risk and safety management system
- Subject Code :
AVIA3005
- University :
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- Country :
Australia
Risk and safety management system
2250 words
Due date: 15/04/2023
A safety culture within an organisa3on is generally considered to be a set of beliefs, norms, a8tudes, or prac3ces that reduce the exposure of all people in and around an organisa3on towards condi3ons considered dangerous or hazardous (CASA, 2016). According to Reason (1997) there are five components of a safety culture: Informed, Just, Flexible, Learning and Repor3ng and it is a repor3ng culture that is key to developing a strong safety culture. McCune, Lewis and Arendt (2011) cau3oned that if safety reports were used as a source of informa3on for disciplinary ac3on the repor3ng system would likely suffer, and employees would quickly lose trust in their organisa3ons safety culture. Therefore, Patankar et al. (2012, cited in McMurtrie & Molesworth, 2018) suggested that a just culture must exist to establish and sustain an effec3ve repor3ng culture for an organisa3on to gain an understanding of errors and hazards in the opera3onal environment. A just culture is a culture of trust and learning while it also holds people in an organisa3on accountable for undesirable performance (Dekker, 2017). Dekker (2017) added that the primary purpose of a just culture is to give people the confidence to report safety issues.
It is assumed that you are a new safety manager for UniSA Avia3on, and you have been tasked to produce a report that details the inter-dependency and the importance of repor3ng and just cultures within the companys safety culture with a case study. The following is a suggested report format.
- Title page (with word count)
- Execu3ve summary (approximately 10% of the word limit and this does NOT count
toward the word limit)
- Introduc3on (200 300 words)
- Descrip3on of safety culture (200 300 words)
- Descrip3on and discussion of a repor3ng culture and its posi3ve impacts on an
organisa3ons safety culture (400 500 words)
- Descrip3on and discussion of a just culture and its posi3ve impacts on an
organisa3ons safety culture (600 700 words)
- A best way to implement a just culture with ra3onale and is supported by a case study
(600 700 words)
- Conclusion (200 300 words)
- Reference list (See note below and this does NOT count toward the word limit)
Referencing
- APA7 style
- Must include a minimum of six peer-reviewed journal ar3cles. The UniSA library has some great star3ng point guides for finding the relevant journal ar3cles
Marking criteria
A separate marking criteria sheet will be uploaded on LearnOnLine
Important informa=on about all assessment
All students must adhere to the University of South Australias procedures about assessment (http://i.unisa.edu.au/policies-and-procedures/codes/assessment-policies/)
