Epilogue

It is suggested that good safety-beliefs, values, behaviours and supportive soft skills are needed to develop a strong organisational safety-culture or sustain an already good culture. In this text, a theme has been the important role of management in this development by promoting and shaping organisational safety-culture. The requirement on the workforce is to respond positively, within a ‘just’ culture, recognising that safety-performance excellence is a key organisational requirement in high-hazard businesses. Due to the various characteristics and attributes of safety-culture, summarising the management’s role can be difficult, but it is perhaps useful to focus on just a few aspects.