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Semira Soraya-Kandan, Germany!

How to align multi-cultural organizations?

Workshop on Global Safety Culture — National Factors Relevant to Safety Culture IAEA Headquarters Vienna, Austria 8–11 April 2014

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Vietnam Traffic

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Libyan Traffic: ���Myths & Challenges

1. Perplexity & unsuited solutions

2. Religious accounts & myths

3.  Foreign organizations foster safety culture countering social and political developments

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Photo & translation by @LloydMathias, 23.03.2014

Beware of shareability constraints in translations!

"Drive sensibly and you'll reach your

home; drive rashly and you'll reach your

heavenly abode!“

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Photo by @LloydMathias, 23.03.2014

Leverage indigenous wisdoms!

“If you drive safe and slow, you will reach

your home & family,

if you drive in a rash, you will reach

Haridwar.

Translation by @syamant 25.03.2014

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Culture and experience: Age matters! In some unprotected Japanese fishing villages on a big peninsula close to Ishinomaki, there were surprisingly many survivors. They were mostly elder people. “Education (& experience) is decisive for the functioning of early warning systems.” Kenichi Horiuchi, deputy head in reconstruction of the city of Ishinomaki

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Global Fire Department: Leadership development 2006!

The old & the new

•  Improving failure analysis and failure culture

•  Learning to distinguish between emergency operations and other daily routines

•  New generations at work

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Professional background shapes perspectives!

•  integrated safety culture & leveraging diversity for scanning weak signals?

•  raising awareness of uneasy fits in safety (sub-)cultures

inapparent : apparent dangers

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How to align multicultural organizations?

•  Broadening the concept of culture to diversity & inclusiveness

•  Cultural self-awareness

•  Competency development on the levels of individuals, groups, organization and boundary spanning

•  Develop an inclusive safety culture

•  Leverage diversity for increasing safety