1. Safety Culture Peter Jacobsson Environment, Safety & Health
Presentation at SSM visit
10 May, 2019

2. What are we talking about?
Safety Culture determines Safety Climate.
However, culture and knowledge cannot be shaped like a technical system. Behavior is dynamic and an engineering perspective won´t work. Many attempts have been failed in the past.
In particular challenging: How to grow culture in an international organization of mainly engineers and physicists.
Safety Culture
Safety Climate

3. How to reach the hearts and minds of people
Key question: How to set conditions for people so they can realize safety as their own intrinsic motive.
Our guiding principles:
Creating trust by supporting the people in their safety duties.
Creating trust by appreciating people´s ideas regarding safety and by actively involving them into the development of safety measures.
Respect the technical and system expertise of the people.
Making safety top of everyone´s agenda.
Motivate everybody to report incidents.
Using positive reinforcement by rewarding employees who adhere to risk, health and safety policies.

4. Building a Safety Culture at ESS
Training
Mission
Safety Culture
Tools
Communication
Engagement & Initiatives

5. ESS Vision and mission
Our vision is to build and operate the world’s most powerful neutron source, enabling scientific breakthroughs in research related to materials, energy, health, and the environment, and addressing some of the most important societal challenges of our time
To do this, we commit to deliver ESS as a facility that: 
Is built safely, on time and on budget
Produces research outputs that are best-in-class both in terms of scientific quality and in terms of socioeconomic impact
Supports and develops its user community, fosters a scientific culture of excellence and acts as an international scientific hub
Operates safely, efficiently, and economically and responds to the needs of its stakeholders, its host states and member states
Develops innovative ways of working, new technologies, and upgrades to capabilities needed to remain at the cutting edge

6. Mission
We share the philosophy together with our site construction partner:
“We work safely or we do not work at all”
Clear message from DG and Management
Safety Objectives 2018

7. ESS Safety Objectives 2018 and ESS Objectives 2018: a virtuous circle
ESS
Objectives
2018
ESS
Safety Objectives
2018
Two key reasons for talking about ESS Safety Objectives, and to make them more ‘visible’ to the ESS people, are:
the crucial role they play in the achievement of the ESS Objectives (as shown in the drawing)
The need to make the ESS community more aware of what safety means, how it is (or should become even more) an integral part of what we do, and why it matters to the success of the ESS construction and operations.

8. Communication ESS Management Team meetings
Communicated directly; Confluence
”Stand-up” meetings with line management
EMT vs Line managers (4-6 times per year)
Staff meetings
2-3 times per year
Newsletter (ESS)/Blueprints (SEC)
ETB (ESS Technical Board)
Project Reports (Council)

9. Engagement & Initiatives
Installation meetings
Safety Walks at site
”Floor walking” in the offices/Labs
Evacuation drills
Participations at meetings with In-Kind partners (e.g. IKON)
Provide expertise and support in RP
OHS
Risk Assessment
QA/QC
CE Marking

10. Tools Confluence Page TIA RAMS form ALARA (principle and committee)
SRR
Audits & Inspections
Employee survey
OHS Committee
Performance Indicators

11. Training Safety training (Lars)
Training/Education in methodology (RAMS)
Line Manager Training
ESS General Induction
Site
ESS