The phrase "a positive safety" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing safety measures or protocols, but it would need clarification or rephrasing for clarity.
Example: "The report highlighted a positive safety trend in the workplace, indicating fewer accidents over the past year."
Alternatives: "a favorable safety" or "an improved safety".
Finally, we highlight the importance of a positive safety culture as an essential complement to regulatory pressure in maintaining safety.
Volvo's advantage in creating a positive safety story served the brand well when government regulators began to push for crash testing, air bags and stability-control systems.
Conducting efforts to train employees about occupational health and safety and to involve them in the practices required by the standard can help the companies in creating a positive safety culture.
A regional risk governance framework can improve safety by focusing on actual regional risks, designing tailor-made safety measures to control them, enhancing a positive safety culture in the shipping industry, and by increasing trust among all involved.
Although the introduction of health and safety management systems has further decreased the incidence of occupational injuries and diseases, these systems are not effective unless accompanied by a positive safety culture in the workplace.
We illustrate the "slippery slope of thoroughness" along which organizational behavior slides under the influence of performance pressure, and suggest that a positive safety culture can be conceived of as "pulling this slippery slope" up and preventing the violation of the safety threshold.
According to the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP), in a strong positive safety culture, everyone feels responsible for safety and pursues it on a daily basis.
Those who perceived themselves as working in a more positive safety culture were more likely to judge patient safety as good (see appendix 7 in online supplement).
Specifically this factor, focused on quality improvement as an indicator of positive safety culture, with higher scores indicating a greater emphasis towards taking a systems approach to dealing with errors, a desired outcome of many patient safety programmes.
Systems to improve patient safety, such as checklists, are only effective when implemented within a receptive and positive safety climate.
Related research shows that when a positive patient safety culture exists, it will promote patient safety and help to improve patient safety standards, including the capacity and willingness to report minor errors, self-reporting errors, safety behaviors and safety audit rating [ 7- 9].
