Safety Culture: Theory, Method and Improvement

Antonsen, Stian

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“…Hale and Hovden (1998) characterize the goals of what they termed the 'third age' of safety, as the achievement of a better understanding of the management issues, particularly in terms of safety 'culture' and 'climate' (Zohar, 1980;Antonsen, 2009). This shift of emphasis from 'micro' to 'macro' accounts of error (Le Coze, submitted) is reflected in the types of methods for accident analysis and investigation which developed from the 1980's up until the present day.…”

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‘Remixing Rasmussen’: The evolution of Accimaps within systemic accident analysis

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‘Remixing Rasmussen’: The evolution of Accimaps within systemic accident analysis

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“…Over a period of 30 years, safety culture has become the dominant theoretical lens through which to understand how organisational culture shapes risk practices (Antonsen 2012;Strauch 2015;Zohar 2010). Although many theories and measurements exist for studying organisational culture and behaviour (Ashkanasy et al 2000), safety culture focuses upon explaining why organisational employees engage in risky and unethical behaviours, and how these can lead to mishaps.…”

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“…These similarities provide further evidence of the applicability of a safety culture framework in this domain, indicating that the application of a safety culture framework is not only fitting, but that it can enrich the existing models though a deeper understanding of the specific behaviours that underlie the incidents. Drawing on previous safety culture research (Antonsen 2012) it is also indicative of the interventional steps that might be taken to improve safety culture in these settings (such as team training, incident reporting and monitoring and organisational learning exercises).…”

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Safety Culture in Financial Trading: An Analysis of Trading Misconduct Investigations

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2017

J Bus Ethics

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High-profile failures in financial trading have led to interest in how the culture of the industry produces risky and unethical behaviours among traders. Yet, there is no established theoretical framework for studying this: we apply safety culture theory to examine ten recent highprofile trading mishaps investigated by the UK financial regulator. The results show that the dimensions of safety culture (e.g. Management Commitment to Safety, Systems and procedures) used to understand organisational accidents in domains such as aviation also explain failures in Risk Management within financial trading organisations. This counters narratives focusing on traders who are unethical 'rule breakers', and emphasises the value of a systemic approach, whereby safety culture theory is used to explain why risky behaviours in financial trading occur. Safety culture therefore provides a conceptual basis for further research on risky and unethical behaviours in financial trading, alongside providing insights for possible intervention.

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“…While there are several definitions and conceptualizations of safety culture, a common denominator seems to be that it has to do with the informal side of high-risk organizations. "Informal" here refers to the unwritten rules guiding the behavior and decisions of a group of people, as opposed to the formal rules that usually accompanies high-risk activities (Antonsen, 2009). The term informal also implies that culture often refers to something that is tacit and hard to grasp and understand for outsiders.…”

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“…Turner, 1978;Cox & Flin, 1998;Guldenmund, 2000;Richter & Koch, 2004;Hopkins, 2006, Reiman & Oedewald, 2006Antonsen, 2009a;Naevestad, 2010;Rollenhagen, 2010;Blazsin & Guldenmund, 2015). Furthermore, the concept of culture has been highlighted in numerous investigations into a wide variety of disasters, such as the train derailment at Sjursøya in Norway in 2009(AIBN, 2011, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown (NAIIC, 2012) and the terrorist attacks in Oslo in 2011 (NOU 2012: 14).…”

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Regulating the intangible. Searching for safety culture in the Norwegian petroleum industry

2017

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Abstract:The way organizational culture can influence safety has been a topic in safety research and accident investigations for decades. This has led to an increasing interest from regulators to include the concept of safety culture into the sphere of risk regulation. In the Norwegian petroleum regulations, a requirement for a "sound health, safety and environment culture" was introduced in 2002. The article presents a qualitative study of the perceived effects of this requirement on safety, seen from the perspective of both the regulator and the regulated companies.The study shows that introducing the concept of safety culture into regulation can have positive effects both within the regulated companies and within the regulator's own organization. While certainly not being suited for a "command and control" approach to regulation, requirements to a "sound HSE culture" serves as an important policy statement in Norwegian regulations. It influences the whole institutional field to explore new approaches to safety. Introducing the concept of safety (or HSE) culture into the regulatory vocabulary has served as a sensitizing concept for both the regulator and the industry, thereby increasing both parties' ability to address informal and systemic aspects of safety.

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Safety Culture: Theory, Method and Improvement

Cited by 77 publications

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‘Remixing Rasmussen’: The evolution of Accimaps within systemic accident analysis

‘Remixing Rasmussen’: The evolution of Accimaps within systemic accident analysis

Safety Culture in Financial Trading: An Analysis of Trading Misconduct Investigations

Regulating the intangible. Searching for safety culture in the Norwegian petroleum industry

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