SAFETY CULTURE: AN INTEGRATIVE REVIEW

This review summarizes and integrates the numerous reports and studies that have been conducted to define and assess the concept of safety culture as well as the related concept of safety climate. Findings from the review indicate that few formally documented efforts have been made to assess safety culture within the aviation industry. Furthermore, there exists considerable disagreement among safety professionals, both within and across industries, as to how safety culture should be defined and whether or not safety culture is inherently different from the concept of safety climate. The authors synthesize these different perspectives and discuss key organizational indicators of safety culture and the various methods commonly used to assess these factors. Issues that need to be considered when implementing a safety culture assessment program are also discussed. This review should enable researchers and safety professionals to better understand and assess safety culture and facilitate the sharing of information and strategies across organizations and industries in order to improve safety culture.

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• Authors:
  • Wiegmann, D A
  • Zhang, Hongli
  • von Thaden, T L
  • Sharma, G
  • Gibbons, A M
• Publication Date: 2004

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 117-134
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Aviation Psychology
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 1050-8414
  • EISSN: 1532-7108
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hiap20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aviation safety; Culture (Social sciences); Literature reviews; Risk assessment; Safety culture; Safety management
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00975074
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 10 2004 12:00AM