Behavioural safety and accident prevention short-term 'fad' or sustainable 'fix'?

Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Volumn 84, Issue 3 B, 2006, Pages 164-170

  Cox, S ^a   Jones, B ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour change; Behavioural safety programmes (BSP); High reliability organizations; Safety; Safety critical behaviour; Safety management; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE; BEHAVIOURAL SAFETY PROGRAMMES (BSP); HIGH RELIABILITY ORGANIZATIONS; SAFETY CRITICAL BEHAVIOUR; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

EID: 33745395716     PISSN: 09575820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/psep.05186     Document Type: Article

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