Safety culture assessment: A mission impossible?

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 242-254

  Antonsen, Stian ^a  

^a NTNU SOCIAL RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CULTURE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GAS PLATFORM; OIL PLATFORM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 70949088223     PISSN: 09660879     EISSN: 14685973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5973.2009.00585.x     Document Type: Article

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