Your safety transformation starts and ends with culture transformation
Improving safety performance is a complex challenge - but when culture leads the way, lasting change is possible.
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Authors: Helen Kewell and Verity Hart
When people go to work, they want to come home safe. It’s a simple expectation - but delivering it consistently across a complex organisation takes more than good intentions.
Despite advanced tools, detailed processes, and even AI-powered insights, many organisations still find it difficult to improve their safety performance in a meaningful and lasting way.
Why? Because effective safety transformation doesn’t start with systems. It starts with culture.
In this article, Helen Kewell and Verity Hart explore how organisations can unlock safer, stronger performance by making safety part of their cultural fabric. Drawing on real-world examples across high-risk industries, they show how prioritising people, empowering leadership, and embedding psychological safety can lead to lasting improvements.
You’ll learn how to:
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Make safety a lived behaviour for your leadership team – not just a goal on a page.
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Build psychological safety so people feel empowered to speak up and share concerns.
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Continuously improve by learning from incidents and adapting to change.
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Balance AI and human insight to strengthen decision-making and resilience.
By transforming culture, safety becomes more than compliance - it becomes reality.
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About the Authors
Helen Kewell is a Client Partner at Muuto, specialising in global people, behaviour and culture transformations. She partners with senior leaders and teams to tackle transformation challenges and create tailored solutions to drive meaningful change.
Verity Hart is a Project Manager at Muuto with expertise in complex, business and technology-driven transformation. She is an expert in psychological safety and in building innovative cultural, change management and learning solutions to drive business outcomes.