Effects of organisational safety culture on driver behaviours and accident involvement amongst professional drivers

Driver Behaviour and Training

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 143-153

  Öz, Bahar ^a   Lajunen, Timo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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