Safety culture in an aircraft maintenance organisation: A view from the inside

Safety Science

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 268-278

  Atak, Ahmet ^a   Kingma, Sytze ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aircraft maintenance; Ethnography; Organisational culture; Safety culture

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE; AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC INTERESTS; ETHNOGRAPHY; GROWTH PHASE; MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT; ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATIONS; PROCESS VIEW; SAFETY CULTURE;

AIRCRAFT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

MAINTENANCE;

AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CULTURAL SAFETY; DOCUMENTATION; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 78049422530     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.08.007     Document Type: Article

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