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Safety Culture Program
NIST recognizes that a strong and positive safety culture is essential to:
- Creating and maintaining a safe work environment; and
- Eliminating or minimizing severity of safety-related incidents, illnesses, and injuries.
Towards this end, engagement and vigilance at all levels of the organization are essential to prevent complacency from degrading organizational safety culture. As NIST strives to achieve these common goals, each OU must be allowed the flexibility needed to achieve a strong and positive safety culture. The NIST Safety Culture program establishes the requirements and associated roles and responsibilities necessary to support a strong and positive NIST safety culture based on common goals and consistent across NIST.
Created October 25, 2022, Updated January 30, 2024