A Study of the Awareness of Security and Safety Culture Among Employees Across Organizations (original) (raw)

2020, TEXILA INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT

The security and safety culture of organizations requires care and nurturing. When a culture of security and protection is sustainable, it transforms the security of a unique event into a life cycle that generates safety returns forever. In any system, humans are always the weakest escape. A culture of security is primarily for humans, not for computers. Computers do exactly what we tell them to do. The challenge is with humans, who click on the things they receive in the email and think what someone tells them. Humans need a framework to understand what is right for security. The study investigated the knowledge of a safety culture among workers in organizations, using data from secondary sources. This study was evaluated in two points of view; First, it assessed how awareness of a safety culture was established among employees of organizations. Second, it assessed the importance of creating a culture of safety and security among workers in organizations. The study concluded that, organizations can create security and safety awareness culture through; education, building security community and policies, initiating security boot camp, motivation, security and safety mindfulness. The study also concluded that, security and safety awareness across organizations is important and a key determinant of ensuring; Long-term commercial viability of organizations, impenetrable processes of organizations, Safe operations of organizations' applications systems, Data protection, Protection of organizational functions from top to down, Increased organizational effectiveness and performance and building and maintaining a flexible network environment and hence staying away from information risks.