An explorative study of health, safety and environment culture in a Norwegian petroleum company

Safety Science

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 992-1001

  Høivik, Dordi ^a,b   Moen, Bente E ^b   Mearns, Kathryn ^c   Haukelid, Knut ^d  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Health; Petroleum industry; Safety and environment culture; Safety climate; Safety culture

Indexed keywords

GAIN INSIGHTS; HEALTH , SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTS; NEW CONCEPTS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTHS; OPERATIONAL UNITS; PETROLEUM COMPANIES; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; QUALITATIVE INTERVIEWS; SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT CULTURE; SAFETY CLIMATE; SAFETY CULTURE; WORKING ENVIRONMENTS;

HEALTH; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; MANAGERS; PERSONNEL; PETROLEUM INDUSTRY; PETROLEUM REFINERIES;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

PETROLEUM;

ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 67349285925     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2008.11.003     Document Type: Article

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