Dynamics of safety performance and culture: A group model building approach

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 118-125

  Goh, Yang Miang ^a   Love, Peter E D ^b   Stagbouer, Greg ^c   Annesley, Chris ^c  

^a DNV GL   (Norway)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Ausdrill Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Occupational health and safety; Safety culture; System dynamics; Systems thinking; Workshop

Indexed keywords

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY; SAFETY CULTURE; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEMS THINKING; WORKSHOP;

INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

SYSTEM THEORY;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AUSTRALIA; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 84861897444     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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