One possibility of integrating the concept of safety culture into
a systemic framework that can meet the requirements for a more
complete systemic view on safety would be to start with a definition of safety and introduce the various component classes
(people, technology, organisational structure, environment, etc.)
that together constitute the resources used to cope with various
threats (many of which stem from technology, people, organisational structures, and interaction between these). Such a model
could take the definition of safety as “an emergent property of
the functioning of the sociotechnical system” as its starting point
and define safety culture as the shared mental models (beliefs and
assumptions) of safety. This definition offers an opportunity to view