02. Safety Culture
L2 03 L Safety Culture
Good Safety Culture
Here are some characteristics of a good safety culture:
- High priority : safety has the highest priority among competing constraints like cost and productivity
- Accountability : processes ensure accountability such that design decisions are traceable back to the people and teams who made the decisions
- Rewards : the organization motivates and supports the achievement of functional safety
- Penalties : the organization penalizes shortcuts that jeopardize safety or quality
- Independence : teams who design and develop a product should be independent from the teams who audit the work
- Well defined processes : company design and management processes should be clearly defined
- Resources : projects have necessary resources including people with appropriate skills
- Diversity : intellectual diversity is sought after, valued and integrated into processes
- Communication : communication channels encourage disclosure of problems
Quality Management
ISO 26262 does not cover quality management directly; however, quality management is a required part of safety culture.
Organizations need to have a quality management system in place that complies with quality management standards such as [ISO/TS 16949](
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/TS_16949
) (replaced in 2016 by
IATF 16949
or
ISO 9001
.