The role of national culture in determining safety performance: Challenges for the global oil and gas industry

Safety Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 777-785

  Mearns, Kathryn ^a   Yule, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural values; Multi national organisations; Risk taking behaviour; Safety climate

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT RATES; CROSS-CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; CULTURAL VALUES; GLOBALISATION; MULTI-NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS; NATIONAL CULTURES; NATIONAL VALUES; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETIES; OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIES; RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOUR; SAFETY CLIMATE; SAFETY MEASURES; SAFETY PERFORMANCE; SAGE PUBLICATIONS; WORK-RELATED;

GAS INDUSTRY; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; RISK PERCEPTION; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; AVIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMININITY; FUEL AND FUEL RELATED PHENOMENA; GAS WORKS; GLOBAL CHANGE; GLOBALIZATION; HUMAN; MASCULINITY; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; OIL INDUSTRY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 63749084181     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2008.01.009     Document Type: Article

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