Strategies for dealing with resistance to recommendations from accident investigations

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 455-467

  Lundberg, Jonas ^a   Rollenhagen, Carl ^b,c   Hollnagel, Erik ^d   Rankin, Amy ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c RINGHALS AB   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accident investigation; Remedial actions; Safety culture

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION; ACCIDENT INVESTIGATORS; APPLICATION DOMAINS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMEDIAL ACTIONS; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; SAFETY CULTURE;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION; SAFETY; STANDARD; SWEDEN;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; CAUSALITY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SAFETY; SWEDEN;

EID: 84856085562     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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