Culture or behaviour? Friend or foe?

Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference 2007, ESREL 2007 - Risk, Reliability and Societal Safety

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1671-1679

  Tharaldsen, J E ^a   Haukelid, K ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOURISM; COGNITIVE ASPECTS; CULTURE THEORIES; DRIVING FORCES; FIELD MODELS; HUMAN LIVES; SAFETY RESEARCHES; SUDDEN EVENTS; TIME PERIODS;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 56149104869     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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