Human and organizational biases affecting the management of safety

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1263-1274

  Reiman, Teemu ^a   Rollenhagen, Carl ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bias; Human factors; Organizational factors; Safety management; Safety science

Indexed keywords

AFFORDANCES; BIAS; HOLISTIC VIEW; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; INCOMPLETE INFORMATION; ORGANIZATIONAL FACTORS; SAFETY CULTURE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SAFETY MODELS; SAFETY SCIENCE; SOCIAL CONVENTION; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM SAFETY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 79961001008     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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