Can we examine safety culture in accident investigations, or should we?

Strauch, Barry

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2015.03.020

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

Leaver

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

Leaver

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2017

J Bus Ethics

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“…Recently, more attention has been devoted to safety culture [2] as researchers proved that safety culture is related to accident occurrence [3]. Since it has been known by scholars that many accidents, especially the high-profile ones, were caused by poor safety culture [4], the Taiwanese government was motivated to improve Taiwan industries' safety culture.…”

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Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

2017

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Abstract:The present study aims to assess the safety-climate level in Taiwan's metal industries, as well as to identify the influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate. An earlier report showed that a poor safety culture was related to the cause of accidents in Taiwan's traditional manufacturing industries. This study surveyed a total of 839 workers who voluntarily participated and completed the safety-culture questionnaires. These workers were from a Taiwanese metal company and its five satellite companies. Three safety-climate factors, namely safety perception, safety communication and safety-management systems, were assessed. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was conducted by developing structural equation modeling to ensure the questionnaire's validity. The influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate was identified by using one-way ANOVA. The reliability result of the questionnaire was above the acceptable level. The overall safety-climate score was 4.22 out of a five-point scale for safety perception, 4.23 for safety-management systems and 3.97 for safety communication. The scores indicate a good level of safety climate, with room for improvement in safety communication. Additionally, the influence of workers' backgrounds on the safety climate was confirmed. Based on the validity test, it was also found that the questionnaire could be improved by reconstructing its questions in its development process in order to increase the safety-climate model's reliability and validity, as well as its model fit.

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“…The tool will be developed using an online web based system which has been demonstrated to be successful in previous research projects such as the development of the "daily journal" safety management system as described within Strauch (2015) where a similar platform approach was used successfully within an organisation.…”

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Development of the framework for a Self-Assessment Tool to assess the effectiveness of reporting within a safety critical industry

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Safety and Reliability of Complex Engineered Systems

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Can we examine safety culture in accident investigations, or should we?

Cited by 52 publications

References 35 publications

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

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

Safety-Culture Exploration in Taiwan’s Metal Industries: Identifying the Workers’ Background Influence on Safety Climate

Development of the framework for a Self-Assessment Tool to assess the effectiveness of reporting within a safety critical industry

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