A comprehensive introduction to the basic concepts and core contents of safety culture.
Safety Culture Basics

When it comes to safety, there seems to be nothing in our society that is more misused than the term “safety culture.”
Although the term "safety culture" is used frequently, it is often narrowly considered to be about improving safety awareness, and is even considered to be a government-led campaign.
That's why many people think that anyone can easily create a safety culture without much preparation.
There are many people who mistakenly believe that they can easily become a safety culture expert simply by having practical experience in safety.

Even those working in safety-related fields do not have proper knowledge about safety culture, and those in the safety academic field do not even have basic awareness of safety culture.
This can be said to be a part that reveals the true face of our country's safety theory level.

It cannot be denied that the safety academic community is largely responsible for the overall lack of safety culture theory in our country.
Although there are more safety scholars in the world than in any other country, it is an undeniable reality that most of them have not studied the basic theories of safety culture and do not even try to learn them systematically.


In this challenging environment, the most important attitude that safety officials must have is to properly learn and accurately understand safety culture, which can be said to be the ultimate goal of safety.


This book was written in the form of a basic textbook that comprehensively introduces the basic and core contents of safety culture, including the concept, principles, approaches, components, and academic trends of safety culture, with the aim of helping safety officials understand safety culture.

In this edition, to more faithfully reflect this author's intention, we have added new, important topics related to safety culture that readers need to have a deep understanding of. Furthermore, we have provided detailed supplementary explanations and footnotes for areas that may present difficulties in understanding the book.