Hello, my name is Alvaro Muñoz
and I am a training specialist at Tecnatom
under the umbrella of the ANNETTE project
from the European Union.
Me and my colleague, David Abarca,
will try to make your learning experience
as enjoyable as possible.
We will try to understand two different terms:
Culture and safety.
And after that,
after obtaining our own concepts,
adapted to our reality of safety culture,
we will begin to learn
with different examples or theories
in order to enrich or reorient those concepts
that we believe we have already acquired.
So the scope of this unit
is to set the basis for you
to understand what safety culture is,
based on the definition of culture,
risk and safety culture.
And we will finish exploring a new concept of safety,
completely different but not excluding
of what safety could be.
So let's continue
and we will see
all those new concepts
and others that would build the foundations that we need
for our new knowledge.
So using the classical definition,
we can define culture as the characteristics
and knowledge of a group of people,
encompassing from language to religion,
and including cuisine, social habits,
music, art and others.
But we can go a step further
and define culture as share patterns of behaviors
interactions, cognitive instructions
and understanding that are learned
by socialization.
Thus,
it can be seen as the growth of a group identity
fostered by social patterns
unique to that group.
So as we have said,
culture encompasses many things:
from behaviors, interactions, etc...
Like religion, food, what we wear,
how we wear it,
our language,
marriage traditions,
music,
what we believe is right or wrong,
how we sit at the table,
how we greet visitors,
how we behave
and a million of other things.
So as you can see in the link below
to an article,
the word "culture" derives from a French term,
which in turn derives from the Latin "colere".
Which is a special word that means
something that tends to the Earth and growth.
Something related to cultivation and nurture.
So this will serve the etymology
with many other things.
Culture appears to have become
something in our interconnected world
which is made up of so many diverse individuals,
and will cause conflicts associated with behavior,
thoughts, ethical beliefs, etc...
But what is important to know
is that culture evolves.
That means that,
what is culture now, will change in the future.
Culture is something fluid.
It's constantly moving, in motion.
So this makes really difficult and complex
to try to define what culture really is.
So as there is no one unique way to define culture,
we will try to give you a definition.
It's our definition
and we want to share it with you.
But now, please, go to the link below and read the article
where you will learn many things about what I mean here.