Strategies regulatory authorities can use to influence safety culture in organizations: Lessons based on experiences from three sectors

Nævestad, Tor‐Olav; Hesjevoll, Ingeborg Storesund; Ranestad, Karen; Antonsen, Stian

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2019.05.020

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“…The second mechanism through which SMS may produce positive safety outcomes is through the development of a positive safety culture. As noted, this is the explicit motivation for most SMS legislation, hypothesizing that the development of formal procedures ("how things should be done"), will influence informal practices ("how things actually are done") [11]. Implementing an SMS largely concerns implementing certain routines and ways of doing things in the organization, e.g., carrying out risk assessments, documenting the process, developing procedures, and training new employees etc.…”

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“…The development of a positive safety culture is a formal aim and justification of SMS in the maritime sector [9], in aviation [5] in rail [10], and also in the voluntary ISO:39001 standard in the road sector. Thus, it is believed that the development of formal procedures ("how things should be done") will influence informal practices ("how things actually are done") [11]. Studies also indicate positive effects of SMS on safety culture in aviation [12], in the maritime sector [13] and in rail [14,15].…”

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Work-Related Accident Prevention in Norwegian Road and Maritime Transport: Examining the Influence of Different Sector Rules

2021

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About 36% of fatal road accidents in Norway involve at least one driver who is “at work”. It has been argued that the implementation of rules clearly defining the responsibility of road transport companies to prevent work related accidents, by implementing safety management systems (SMS), could lead to increased safety. In the present study we tested the validity of this suggestion, by examining the influence of different sector rules on work-related accident prevention in Norwegian road and maritime transport. In contrast to the road sector, the maritime sector has had rules requiring SMS for over 20 years, clearly defining the shipping companies responsibility for prevention of work-related accidents. The aims of the study were to: (1) examine how the different sector rules influence perceptions of whether the responsibility to prevent work-related accidents is clearly defined in each sector; and (2) compare respondents’ perceptions of the quality of their sectors’ efforts to prevent work-related accidents, and factors influencing this. The study was based on a small-scale survey (N = 112) and qualitative interviews with sector experts (N = 17) from companies, authorities, and NGOs in the road and the maritime sectors. Results indicate that respondents in the maritime sector perceive the responsibility to prevent work-related accidents as far more clearly defined, and they rate their sector’s efforts to prevent accidents as higher than respondents in road. Multivariate analyses indicate that this is related to the scope of safety regulations in the sectors studied, controlled for several important framework conditions. Based on the results, we conclude that the implementation of SMS rules focused on transport companies’ responsibility to prevent work-related accidents could improve safety in the road sector. However, due to barriers to SMS implementation in the road sector, we suggest starting with a simplified version of SMS.

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Work-Related Accident Prevention in Norwegian Road and Maritime Transport: Examining the Influence of Different Sector Rules

2021

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“…That is why, under regular changes in national and international requirements of the regulatory framework on labour protection, fuel and energy companies consistently take measures aimed at preserving the life and health of workers as the greatest values [1,2]. The fact that Russia joined the international movement of zero accident reasonably confirms the readiness of the state to transform the available management mechanisms taking into account global practice and is a necessary condition for the progressive and safe development of the country [3][4][5].…”

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“…In the course of the II All-Russian study of the practices of safety culture, labour protection and occupational safety 4 conducted in 2019 with participation of over 600 employees and managers of different industrial enterprises in the country, an adapted model of P. Hudson was used. As a result, it was concluded that 57 % of companies are at a reactive level of occupational safety culture (characterized by a relatively formal attitude of employees to occupational safety issues and response to incidents that had already occurred), 35 % are at an engaging level (having low injury rates due to awareness of employees of responsibility for their own safety in the absence of a significant progress due to a lower efficiency of the available procedures compared to companies with a higher level of occupational safety culture).…”

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Assessment of the efficiency of occupational safety culture management in fuel and energy companies

Glebova

Volokhina

Vikhrov

2023

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The results of development, testing and implementation of the process of occupational safety culture management in a fuel and energy company including the assessment of current state, assessment of deviation, formation of control action and its implementation are presented. Using the methods of mathematical analysis, the components of occupational safety culture and criteria for their evaluation were developed. As a control action, a procedure for conducting behavioural safety audit was elaborated and implemented. Proceeding from the results of analysing average ratings of safety culture components among the employees prior to and after the introduction of behavioural safety audit, it was concluded that there was a statistically significant increase in the average values of 12 out of 16 ratings of safety culture components. Analysis of the results of 1,011 audits showed the absence of an “alarm area” at the enterprise. Introduction of the developed process management model promotes an increase in the efficiency of attaining a high level of occupational safety culture in fuel and energy companies.

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“…Vierendeels et al [ 8 ] reviewed the safety culture and safety climate literature and proposed an integrated conceptual framework for safety culture. Nævestad et al [ 21 ] reviewed aspects of the regulation of safety culture, addressing, inter alia, what types of regulatory efforts are made, what strategies regulators apply to influence safety culture, and experiences with and results of these strategies. Wang and Wu [ 22 ] reviewed the development of safety culture research in China, highlighting its achievements and future research needs.…”

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Conceptualizing the Contextual Dynamics of Safety Climate and Safety Culture Research: A Comparative Scientometric Analysis

Goerlandt

Nunen

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Safety climate and safety culture are important research domains in risk and safety science, and various industry and service sectors show significant interest in, and commitment to, applying its concepts, theories, and methods to enhance organizational safety performance. Despite the large body of literature on these topics, there are disagreements about the scope and focus of these concepts, and there is a lack of systematic understanding of their development patterns and the knowledge domains on which these are built. This article presents a comparative analysis of the literature focusing on safety climate and safety culture, using various scientometric analysis approaches and tools. General development patterns are identified, including the publication trends, in terms of temporal and geographical activity, the science domains in which safety culture and safety climate research occurs, and the scientific domains and articles that have primarily influenced their respective development. It is found that the safety culture and safety climate domains show strong similarities, e.g., in dominant application domains and frequently occurring terms. However, safety culture research attracts comparatively more attention from other scientific domains, and the research domains rely on partially different knowledge bases. In particular, while measurement plays a role in both domains, the results suggest that safety climate research focuses comparatively more on the development and validation of questionnaires and surveys in particular organizational contexts, whereas safety culture research appears to relate these measurements to wider organizational features and management mechanisms. Finally, various directions for future research are identified based on the obtained results.

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Strategies regulatory authorities can use to influence safety culture in organizations: Lessons based on experiences from three sectors

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

Work-Related Accident Prevention in Norwegian Road and Maritime Transport: Examining the Influence of Different Sector Rules

Work-Related Accident Prevention in Norwegian Road and Maritime Transport: Examining the Influence of Different Sector Rules

Assessment of the efficiency of occupational safety culture management in fuel and energy companies

Conceptualizing the Contextual Dynamics of Safety Climate and Safety Culture Research: A Comparative Scientometric Analysis

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