Most organizations don’t have a safety culture. They have a reporting culture.

 Most organizations don’t have a safety culture.

They have a reporting culture.

Let’s be honest.

☠️ Toxic safety culture looks like this:

 • “Zero Accident” targets → zero reporting

 • Incidents = Who failed?

 • Near misses hidden to protect reputations

 • Human error labeled as the root cause

 • PPE used to compensate for poor design

 • Safety officers with responsibility but no authority

 • Audits chasing scores, not risks

 • Workers told to “be careful” in unsafe systems

🌱 Healthy safety culture looks very different:

 • Reporting is rewarded, not punished

 • Incidents ask What failed in the system?

 • Near misses are treated as free lessons

 • Human error is a signal, not a cause

 • Engineering controls come before PPE

 • Safety professionals have real decision power

 • Audits expose weaknesses early

 • Systems are designed to support humans

Here’s the line most leaders don’t want to hear:

A toxic safety culture asks people to be careful.

A healthy safety culture makes it hard to get hurt.

If your safety dashboard looks perfect…

but people are afraid to speak up —

you don’t have safety.

You have silence.

💬 Uncomfortable question:

Would your people report a serious near miss today — without fear?

If not, it’s time to stop celebrating numbers

and start fixing systems.