1. Sustainable safety culture
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Sustainable safety culture

2. Safety culture is easy to define but very difficult to achieve
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Safety culture is easy to define but very difficult to achieve
Safety culture is seen as a panacea for organisation failures
Achieving a sustainable safety culture requires permanent cultural change
Cultural change is difficult to achieve in an industry that is change averse

3. Australian rail industry is not homogenous
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Australian rail industry is not homogenous
History of rail industry determines how change is received, responded to and resisted
Rail industry is a prisoner of its past
Employee attitudes are shaped by rail family experiences and responses to lessons learnt

4. James Reason – informed culture, operating within a safety space
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Safety culture
James Reason – informed culture, operating within a safety space
International Atomic energy agency
UK experience

5. Challenge to the rail industry
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Challenge to the rail industry
How do you implement and achieve these elements?
Cultural and historical baggage
Pressure by third parties for change
Tension between service delivery and safe, service delivery
Everyone is an expert

6. Challenge to the rail industry
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Challenge to the rail industry
How do you implement and achieve these elements?
Everyone is an expert
Regulator overload
Regulator expectations
Sustainability in the face of competing priorities

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