OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY CULTURE AND UNIVERSITIES

The safety culture is a life style targeting occupational health and safety with a top priority. There is knowledge in base of safety and this knowledge transformed into a style of living forms the safety culture. In the case of not interiorizing the safety culture, work related accidents will be inevitable. Furthermore, an institution’s safety culture reflects the behaviours and attitudes of its occupants towards the job based hazards. From this perspective, the safety culture espoused to the personnel and the students of a university may cause the university to work in accordance with the safety culture as well as it affects its graduates positively in their inbred behaviours at the institutions for which they are to work in the future resulting in the working life retrieving to a better level. This paper examines the safety culture together with the contribution supplied by the universities