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Enhancing Safety Culture Through Competency and Accountability: An Integrated Occupational Psychology Framework

Author(s) Dr. Niyaz Ahmad Khan
Country India
Abstract Sustainable safety culture has become a strategic priority for organisations operating in increasingly complex and high-risk environments. While technical controls and regulatory compliance remain essential components of safety management, they are insufficient to achieve long-term safety performance without understanding the psychological and organisational mechanisms that influence human behaviour. This conceptual study examines the roles of competency and accountability in strengthening safety culture from an occupational psychology perspective through a critical synthesis of contemporary literature in occupational psychology, organisational behaviour, and safety science. The study proposes an integrated conceptual framework in which competency provides the capability for safe performance, accountability reinforces responsible workplace behaviour, and psychological safety, leadership, and organisational learning function as complementary enabling mechanisms. Collectively, these interacting factors create the organisational conditions necessary for resilient and sustainable safety culture. The study contributes a unified theoretical explanation of how psychological and organisational processes shape safety behaviour and organisational performance. The proposed framework offers practical guidance for organisations seeking to strengthen safety culture while providing a conceptual foundation for future empirical research in occupational psychology and safety management.
Keywords Safety Culture; Occupational Psychology; Competency; Accountability; Psychological Safety
Field Sociology > Philosophy / Psychology / Religion
Published In Volume 8, Issue 4, July-August 2026
Published On 2026-07-26
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i04.84479
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