Welcome!
Welcome to the Just Culture App from Just Culture World.
This is the very first attempt to put Just Culture in your pocket. Literally, because although the app runs from a website, it is intended to be run on mobile devices like smartphones. If you are behind a desktop or laptop computer, it should however appear as any normal website.
This website (or app) is designed to be a general purpose utility. It does not exclusively follow one of the many models about Just Culture that one can find in literature, publications, magazines, websites or blogs. Where relevant, we will point you towards more available material elsewhere. First and foremost, we are trying to be as practicable as possible and help you determine, or rather, "interpret" human actions and safety behaviour during a safety event.
What we are teaching
When a safety event occurs, like a mishap, accident or near accident, it is often obvious what went wrong. With hindsight, it is all too easy to point to a certain person that made a mistake, error of judgement, or violated rules. Quite often, this is not true. Nobody goes to work with the intention to make a mistake. But having blamed somebody for the event, the true failures in the system will not be laid bare, which are often wrong procedures for the task, ill-defined responsibilities or managerial flaws. The effect is that further safety improvement is no longer possible or even frustrated, particularly when events are being criminally prosecuted. The conditions for the safety event remain, until the dice are rolled again and another person finds himself in the same situation.
Although it is easy to explain what happened it is significantly more difficult to explain WHY it happened. Just saying "well, it was a bad person that did it" is simply too easy to be a real solution.
There is a clear and obvious relationship with the Just Culture movement that is going on in the world.
Objective of this app
This app should hopefully assist you in understanding the safety event that you experienced a little better. The app is intended to guide you through the possible human behaviors that were at play. You will be able to use the app for helping you select the right follow-up for human behavior after a safety event. Right in your pocket if you have a smartphone!
How to use
In four steps this website or app can help you contribute to a more just and fair safety culture:
- Read the THEORY section to gain more insight into different types of safety behaviors.
- Use the home screen or the geneneral purpose navigator to interpret the intent of the behavior of a person during a safety event (e.g. an incident or accident). Select one of the behaviour classifications that you think is appropriate.
- Check out examples of this type of behavior from different sectors, so you can 'calibrate' your interpretation with others. If you think your situation does not match the examples, go back and try a different classification.
- Read what could be an appropriate follow-up for the type of behaviour you have identified.
We would very much like to hear about your own experience and example. Tell us about it by dropping us a line!
Who are you?
You are a manager, teamleader, safety officer, investigator or similar that works with a team of people to get a task done. This can vary from aviation, healthcare, rail transport, process industry, energy companies or similar. The basis is always that you want to make a good judgement of the safety situation in your daily work and above all prevent people from unjustifiably blamed for something there were just a part of.
You realize that people are your biggest asset in the company and blaming them for errors is the worst thing you can do. You understand that as long as you work with people, they will make mistakes. They will, willingly or unwillingly, violate rules that may or may not have been appropriate for the task at hand.
You are convinced that more safety can be gained with understanding why things happened and then get them solved, rather than going around punishing and blaming.
