Safety culture and risk management organizations

Argues that safety culture represents a new way of conceptualizing processes of risk handling and management in organizational and other contexts. Possible elements of a 'good' safety culture are elaborated under 3 headings: norms and rules for dealing with risk, safety attitudes, and refl...

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Published in:Journal of cross-cultural psychology 1991-03, Vol.22 (Mar 91), p.129-140
Main Author: Pidgeon, N F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Organizations
Relationship
Risk assessment
Safety
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Summary:Argues that safety culture represents a new way of conceptualizing processes of risk handling and management in organizational and other contexts. Possible elements of a 'good' safety culture are elaborated under 3 headings: norms and rules for dealing with risk, safety attitudes, and reflexivity on safety practice. (Abstract amended)
ISSN:0022-0221