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Safety culture is a top priority in most organisations. This article presents field-tested methodologies that would help guide organisations’ actions in understanding and developing behavioural safety culture in practice, and for resolving complex and dynamic concepts and processes involved in safety culture development into simple, doable, and achievable behaviours. For the benefit of companies, six aspects of safety culture methodology and ecosystem are described, such as organisational restructuring requirements for safety culture ecosystem, outline of safety culture concepts and methodologies, safety culture implementation data, highlights of safety culture progress, learnings of ONGC, and a case-study of a chemicals company. The case-study depicts observations by month, observations of safe behaviours/at-risk behaviours/spot-corrections, observations by department, observations by behaviour categories, benefits of safety culture implementation, and objectives and action plan of the safety culture steering committee. Directors/Management focus on the safety culture trends data and review its progress regularly. The methodological and structural essentials of guiding organisations for building a safety culture ecosystem are summarised.