Sailing on friday: Developing the link between safety culture and performance in safety-critical systems

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 263-284

  Grabowski, Martha ^a,b   You, Zhuyu ^b   Song, Huawei ^b   Wang, Haiyuan ^c   Merrick, Jason R W ^d  

^a LE MOYNE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CESSNA AIRCRAFT COMPANY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Large scale systems; Leading indicators; Marine transportation; Safety; Safety culture; Safety performance; Safety critical systems

Indexed keywords

LEADING INDICATORS; MARINE TRANSPORTATION; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SAFETY CULTURE; SAFETY PERFORMANCE;

DISASTER PREVENTION; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SAFETY FACTOR;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 77249171670     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2009.2035300     Document Type: Article

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