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Introduction
Giventheconstantlyshifingdynamicsofchange,theever-increasing
complexityofourenvironment,andits-growingunpredictability,there
isapressingneedtoexplorenewapproachesandperhapsevendevelop
afreshphilosophyforconceptualizingsafetyculture.Tesecircumstanc-
eshavetheirsilverliningbecausetheypresentanopportunitytobreak
freefromhabit—thegreatestenemyofprogress.Inherpreviousbook
onsafetyculture,1theauthorassumedthatsafetyculturedeterminesthe
qualityoflifeofcitizens,which,inturn,makesthesafetycultureoneof
thebasicconditionsofnationalsecurityinthelongterm.Inthisman-
ner,theresearchtopicwaspresentedalongwithacriticalreflectionon
thecognitivepresuppositionsformingtheknowledgeabouttheculture
ofoccupationalsafety.Teresultwastheproposalofamodelofsustain-
ablesafetyculture.Inthepresentedmodel,theconceptofsustainableoc-
cupationalsafetywasintendedtotakeintoaccountthesocio-technical
andeconomicspecificityoftheworkenvironmentinPoland,anditsaim
wastointegratetheareaofsafetyresearchwiththeideaofsustainability.
Fouryearsafertheabove-mentionedpublication—aperiodabound-
inginunprecedentedglobalevents,intermsofscaleandscope—theneed
forsubstantiveverificationoftheproposedmodelofsustainableoccu-
pationalsafetyarose.Fromtheresearchperspectiveofsafetyculture,
safetyisamultifacetedconceptanditmostcertainlygoesbeyondthe
mereabsenceofthreatsortheeńectsofriskybehavior.Itistheresultof
incorporatingsubjectiveandobjectiveelementsandconsideringorgani-
1Sadłowska-WrzesińskaJ.,Kulturabezpieczeństwapracy.Rozwójwwarunkachcy-
wilizacyjnegoprzesilenia[Worksafetyculture.Developmentintheconditionsof
civilizationalsolstice],AspraPublishingHouse,Warsaw,2018.
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