Building and developing Safety Culture in production in Vietnam

To build and develop Safety Culture in production in Vietnam to get good success, it is necessary to do research theoretical and practical basis of Safety Culture, analyzing the Safety Culture development of the world in combination with practices in Vietnam; based on these, it can result in giving full concept of Safety Culture in production suitable with Vietnam condition. Using these results, build the model of Safety Culture, apply it into practice then try to complete the model so that it can be widely applied in Vietnam.

The National Institute of Labour Protection (NILP) in co-operation with Vietnam Occupational Safety and Health Association (VOSHA) conducted the research: “Studying theoretical and practical basis and building the model of Safety Culture in production in Vietnam” in 2013-2015 period to solve the above problems.

2. The main achieved results

The authors of the research conducted many activities focusing on the following issues:

2.1. Studying theoretical and practical basis of safety culture in production.

– The authors collected materials related with Cafety Culture that have been studied by many researchers in the world, then deeply analyzing to find out their basic, common and most logical points of these researches in the world. Also, authors conducted survey on awareness and result of application of Safety Culture  in enterprises in Vietnam. Combining all these activities, the authors come to conclusion about the view point, requirement and content of Safety Culture  in production and give the basis of definition of safety culture  in production in Vietnam.

– To have full definition of Safety Culture in the production which reflects practices in Vietnam and also satisfies the concepts and definition that are given in international literature, the authors address many issues relating with basic viewpoint and requirement to build and develop Safety Culture in production in Vietnam. They are as follows:

+ Building and developing Safety Culture in production in Vietnam is inevitable tendency because Vietnam tries to become industrialized country and internationally integrated;

+ Vietnam government has the point of view and policy supported to build and develop Safety Culture in production;

+ Closely following natural condition, people feature, level of socio-economic development, tradition and culture character of Vietnam to build Safety Culture suitable with Vietnam;

+ It needs to consider Safety Culture as core value, basic content of OSH in new human civilization period and an important content of enterprise’s production culture.

2.2. The concept and definition about safety culture in production in Vietnam

Until now there has been no full definitions on Safety Culture in production in Vietnam. When addressing safety culture it often cited the conclusion of ILO conference taken place in June, 2013 to explain this concept in Vietnam. However, we would like to have it more clearly and feasible to apply in Vietnam condition.

Before giving a definition, the authors agree on the basic points as follows:

– From the aspect of political, social and economic points, to have good Safety Culture in production all level of authority, management, employers and employees it should have correct perception, respect rights of human in ensuring OSH as basic and important rights;