According to him, the concept of culture has to be linked to a group instead of vague notions such as safety or service. We agree with the importance of technology in safety and the idea of focusing on processes instead of static safety culture attributes. We also acknowledge that it would
be conceptually more precise to talk about the culture of a group
and inspect how the group views technology and its hazards, and
makes tradeoffs between safety and production (Schein, 2013b).
However, we see some pragmatic merit in safety culture as a concept and do not present that safety-critical organisations or the
scientific community should totally abandon the concept. The con-cept has been widely accepted in various industries and could act as
a bridge between academic and practitioners’ conceptualizations (a
boundary object of sorts). Rather than abandoning the concept, we
propose a better integration of safety culture into a systems view on
safety and a better acknowledgement of the limits and boundaries
of the safety culture concept.