Safety culture—the backstory

We all want to improve safety culture, but how? There are other questions we need to answer first: What is safety culture? How is it related to compliance? Where does it fit among all the other things we do to create a safe campus? How important is safety culture? Can we influence attitudes? How do we raise awareness? Top down? Or bottom up? If a student or faculty member asked how they can improve campus safety culture, what would you tell them? This presentation explores these questions, what science says about students and behavior, and limitations present even in strong safety cultures. The presenter will propose some answers, a simple way to raise people's awareness, steps individuals can take to grow campus safety culture, and tools you'll need to make it happen.