How Structures Create Cultures

Professor Andrew Hopkins shares his insights on how organizational structure, communication, and habitual practices advance safety culture from his recent book: Organizing for Safety – How structure creates culture.

Hopkins is the author of well known books such as: Lessons from Longford, Failure to Learn, Disastrous Decision, Nightmare Pipeline Failures, and others.

In this video, Hopkins outlines how organizational structures contribute (negatively and positively) to overall safety performance.

This video was shown during of the Oil and Gas Denmark – Task Force Zero 2019 safety conference.