Safety climate differences among job positions in a nuclear decommissioning and demolition industry: Employees' self-reported safety attitudes and perceptions

Safety Science

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 875-889

  Findley, Michael ^a   Smith, Susan ^b   Gorski, June ^b   O'neil, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decommissioning and demolition; Group differences in safety climate; Nuclear industry; Safety climate

Indexed keywords

DECOMMISSIONING AND DEMOLITION; GROUP DIFFERENCES IN SAFETY CLIMATE; SAFETY ATTITUDES;

DEMOLITION; JOB ANALYSIS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; DEMOLITION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR DECOMMISSIONING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547098375     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2006.08.027     Document Type: Article

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