Safety as an organizational value: Improving safety practices and learning from accidents

Advances in Safety and Reliability - Proceedings of the European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2005

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1817-1824

  Silva, S ^a   Lima, M L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT DATA; CHEMICAL COMPANIES; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; LEARNING FROM ACCIDENTS; ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY; PORTUGAL; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS; SAFETY CULTURE; SAFETY PRACTICES; SAFETY PRODUCTION; SAFETY RESEARCH;

INDUSTRY; RELIABILITY;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 79952078897     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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