Analysis on the Acceptance Degree of the Concept of Safety Creating Economic Benefits

Abstract

“Safety creates economic benefits” is one of the important concepts of accident prevention. The safety culture measurement data of 52 coal enterprises in Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hunan, Anhui, Guizhou, Sichuan, Heilongjiang and Liaoning have been taken since 2007 to analyze the results of the safety culture survey questionnaire on the concept of “safety creates economic benefits”. The following conclusions are obtained: the score of the understanding of the concept of “safety creates economic benefits” of the tested coal mining enterprises in China was 87.7 points. Among them, the management has the highest score in understanding the concept of “safety creates economic benefits”, with a score of 89.3. The foreman’s understanding of the concept of “safety creates economic benefits” come second with a score of 88.6, the front-line staff scores 87.4 points and the professional staff scores 86.3 points. The score of the best international safety performance enterprise of understanding the concept of “safety creates economic benefits” scores 94.2 points, while poor safety performance enterprises’ understanding of the concept of “safety creates economic benefits” are 72.2 points. The understanding of Chinese enterprises’ understanding of the idea of “safety creates economic benefits” is 87.7 points, which is between the safety culture level of the enterprises with the best international safety performance and the enterprises with poor international safety performance. To improve the acceptance of the concept of “safety creates economic benefits”, training methods can be adopted. In combination with accident cases, cases around employees remind employees to pay attention to safety.