The relationship between safety climate and recent accidents: Behavioral learning and cognitive attributions

Human Factors

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 639-650

  Desai, Vinit M ^a   Roberts, Karlene H ^a   Ciavarelli, Anthony P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ACCIDENTS IMPACT; BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; GROUP BEHAVIORAL CHANGES; SAFETY CLIMATE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; AVIATION; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLIMATE; COGNITION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LEARNING; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; SAFETY; SAFETY CLIMATE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, AVIATION; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33845933194     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872006779166361     Document Type: Article

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