Leading indicators of system safety - Monitoring and driving the organizational safety potential

Safety Science

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1993-2000

  Reiman, Teemu ^a   Pietikäinen, Elina ^a  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Safety culture; Safety management; Safety performance indicators; System safety

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; DRIVING SYSTEMS; LEADING INDICATORS; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL SAFETY; SAFETY CULTURE; SAFETY INDICATOR; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SAFETY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SOCIOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS; SYSTEM SAFETY; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

BENCHMARKING; MOTIVATION; SAFETY ENGINEERING;

MONITORING;

ARTICLE; LEADERSHIP; MONITORING; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SKILL;

EID: 84863814539     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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