National culture and safe work practice — A comparison between Filipinos and Norwegian seafaring professionals

Lamvik, Gunnar Martin; Bye, Rolf Johan

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“…13 pointed out that that national culture influences safety orientation. A study comparing Filipino and Norwegian seafaring professionals found that national culture seems to impact on the probability of occupational accidents 14 . A study on Pakistani construction workers based on Hofstede's theory showed that there is a strong correlation between cultural dimensions, safe work behaviour and risk perception which could be explained by attitudes 15 .…”

Section: Risk and Safetymentioning

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Occupational safety in a globalized construction industry: a study on Polish workers in Norway*

Wasilkiewicz

Albrechtsen

Antonsen

2016

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety

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Polish workers are the largest group of migrant workers in Norway and are particularly well represented in the construction industry. According to several studies, migrant workers are more prone to occupational accidents than native workers are. This difference is often attributed to poor communication and lack of linguistic skills. We explored factors affecting occupational safety related to migrant workers with an emphasis on communication, culture and language through interviews with Polish and Norwegian workers. The study shows that the construction industry in Norway mainly focuses on language as an issue. Culture is seen as a contributing factor, but is somewhat neglected. Fewer measures to cope with challenges related to migrant workers were found for cultural issues as compared to linguistic. However, the study shows that cultural aspects are at least as important. This gives implications for safety management in the construction industry. This paper suggests considering cultural aspects more in safety management related to migrant workers to achieve the desired safety focus at construction sites.

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Section: Risk and Safetymentioning

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Occupational safety in a globalized construction industry: a study on Polish workers in Norway*

Wasilkiewicz

Albrechtsen

Antonsen

2016

Policy and Practice in Health and Safety

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“…The use of the term seamanship among seafarers has also been interpreted as a means of social categorisation and construction of identities by establishing a division between 'us', the 'proper' seafarers, and 'them', the others who 'lack good seamanship' (Serck-Hansen, 1997;Lamvik & Bye, 2004). The others who are considered not to possess 'good seamanship' may vary and could include seafarers from other nationalities (Serck-Hansen, 1997;Lamvik, 2002;Lamvik & Bye, 2004), seafarers working on coasters (Størkersen et al, 2011), or 'landlubbers' (Bye et al 2015). When used in order to constitute identities, the concept may also describe more than the appreciated skills and "know how" of the individual, but may even include certain attitudes, values and worldviews (Serck-Hansen 1997, Lamvik 2002, Lamvik & Bye 2004.…”

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“…The others who are considered not to possess 'good seamanship' may vary and could include seafarers from other nationalities (Serck-Hansen, 1997;Lamvik, 2002;Lamvik & Bye, 2004), seafarers working on coasters (Størkersen et al, 2011), or 'landlubbers' (Bye et al 2015). When used in order to constitute identities, the concept may also describe more than the appreciated skills and "know how" of the individual, but may even include certain attitudes, values and worldviews (Serck-Hansen 1997, Lamvik 2002, Lamvik & Bye 2004. This implies that the concept of "seamanship" in some situations may include aspects that within the community of safety researchers have been addressed by using the concepts of "safety climate" or "safety culture" (e.g.…”

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Re-boxing seamanship: From individual to systemic capabilities

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“…If we follow the assumption and research results which support that safety cultures vary between different geographic areas and nationalities (see e.g. Hansen et al, 2002;Lamvik & Bye, 2004;Håvold, 2005;Lamvik & Ravn, 2006), this means that the discussions in the majority of the papers are based on and limited to European, Australian and North American realities. This represents a bias in the research that may contribute to (to the extent that these are made) inaccurate generalisations and conclusions.…”

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“…This categorisation refers to the discourse regarding national/regional cultural differences and safety (see e.g. Lamvik & Bye, 2004;Mearns & Yule, 2009). The integrated or differentiated taxonomy divides between the use of "culture" to denote: 1) something that is homogenously shared among members of a defined social group, and 2) controversies, diversity and variation within a defined social unit (see e.g.…”

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What we talk about when we talk about HSE and culture – A mapping and analysis of the academic discourses

2020

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This paper is an extensive review of 229 papers addressing HSE (Health, Safety and Environment) and culture published between 1992 and 2013. The review has been conducted in order to analyse how "culture" has been conceptualised, and whether there is a relation between these conceptualisations and the authors' experience base. The review of the papers has been supported by a statistical analysis of data obtained by a structured and systematic registration of information from papers addressing "culture" and "HSE". Bivariate correspondence analysis has been used as the statistical method in order to explore possible associations between the constructed categorical variables. The statistical analysis reveals that different cultural perspectives are associated with the professional background of the authors and the research designs that have been applied. Our findings confirm much of the critique that has been addressed regarding the use of culture as a concept. The review shows that the literature first and foremost addresses safety. An overwhelming majority of the published research has been conducted in North America, Europe and Australia. We argue that this represents a bias in the research that contributes to inaccurate generalisations and conclusions, especially related to discussions regarding "bad" or "sound" cultures. Some perspectives on culture are dominant, such as the conceptualisation of culture as: 1) shared and aligned perceptions and attitudes, 2) culture as an ideational entity, and 3) culture as one factor among several factors that influence Health, Safety and/or Environment. Relatively few papers conceptualise culture as: 4) holistic metaphor, used in order to denote the systemic relations that influence HSE or as, 5) something that develops in the interaction between people within a particular organisational context. Finally, interpretative approaches, taking the perspective of the actors, are marginal.

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National culture and safe work practice — A comparison between Filipinos and Norwegian seafaring professionals

Cited by 6 publications

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Occupational safety in a globalized construction industry: a study on Polish workers in Norway*

Occupational safety in a globalized construction industry: a study on Polish workers in Norway*

Re-boxing seamanship: From individual to systemic capabilities

What we talk about when we talk about HSE and culture – A mapping and analysis of the academic discourses

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