The INDICATE safety program: evaluation of a method to proactively improve airline safety performance

Edkins, Graham

doi:10.1016/s0925-7535(98)00049-6

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“…These studies explore the establishment and systematic unfolding of various safety management activities and their impact on either intermediate outcomes (e.g., changes in attitudes, behaviors, or risks) or final outcomes (e.g., changes in injury/ lost‐time accident rates, and associated costs). ( 90‐94 )…”

Section: The Future Of Safety Culturementioning

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(Mis)understanding Safety Culture and Its Relationship to Safety Management

Guldenmund¹

2010

Risk Analysis

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Although the concept of safety culture was coined in relation to major accidents like Chernobyl and Piper Alpha, it has been embraced by the safety community at large as a cause for unsafe practice. In this article, three approaches to safety culture are discussed in terms of their underlying concepts of culture and organizational culture. Culture is an intangible, fuzzy concept encompassing acquired assumptions that is shared among the members of a group and that provides meaning to their perceptions and actions and those of others. The basic assumptions that form the essence of a culture are shared, yet tacit, convictions, which manifest themselves subtly in the visible world. As applied by safety researchers, the culture concept is deprived of much of its depth and subtlety, and is morphed into a grab bag of behavioral and other visible characteristics, without reference to the meaning these characteristics might actually have, and often infused with normative overtones. By combining the three approaches, we can resurrect the notion of safety culture and strengthen its analytical potential in understanding the development and implementation of safety management systems.

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Section: The Future Of Safety Culturementioning

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(Mis)understanding Safety Culture and Its Relationship to Safety Management

Guldenmund¹

2010

Risk Analysis

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“…That is, organizational influences, unsafe supervision, preconditions for unsafe acts, and unsafe acts align to result in a mishap or accident. This model has been a prevalent foundation of risk management and proactive safety programs, particularly in civil and military aviation (Belland, Olsen, & Lawry, 2010;Edkins, 1998). In the current study, we focus on organizational and supervisory aspects of the model.…”

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Development and validation of a multi-level air freight handling safety climate scale

Roberts

Douglas

Overstreet

et al. 2018

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviou

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Safety is of critical importance in many industries. One of the more dangerous environments in industry, and the military, is air freight handling, where the fatal injury rate has consistently been higher than the national average. Nonetheless, peer-reviewed safety research that is focused on air freight handling is practically non-existent. Therefore, research that helps academicians and managers better understand safety climate and its potential influence on employee attitudes and behaviors is vitally important. To address these concerns, we develop and validate an air freight handling-specific safety climate scale capable of capturing employees' safety climate perceptions at the organization and group levels. We also found that, in general, measurement scale dimensions in this context are like those in other high-risk, transportation-related contexts, and that the nomological network may be converging on a cross-context set of safety climate dimensions. The resultant scale can be used to investigate safety climate's relationship with various employee attitudes, safety and operational behaviors in this high-risk environment.

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“…GAIN is an acronym for the 'Global Aviation Information Network', which is a voluntary association of airlines, manufacturers, trade unions, governments and other organizations in aviation. Although the GAIN questionnaire originally was developed for the aviation sector, we used it as it focuses on aspects of culture which have been found to be crucial in previous research: e.g., management and employee commitment to safety (e.g., [17]), a reporting and learning culture (e.g., [37]), safety training and safety communication [38]. We have used this scale in our previous research, examining safety culture in several different transport sectors [39,40].…”

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Procedure Negligence in Coastal Cargo: What Can Be Done to Reduce the Gap between Formal and Informal Aspects of Safety?

Nævestad

Størkersen

Phillips

2018

Safety

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Previous studies from the coastal cargo sector report of a considerable gap between formal and informal aspects of safety. Several maritime accident investigations point to this gap as an important contributory cause, indicating that risk increases when informal practices ignore or violate formal procedures. The main aims of this paper are therefore to examine the factors influencing procedure negligence in the coastal cargo sector, and to discuss how to reduce the gap between formal and informal aspects of safety. The study is based on quantitative survey results of 180 crewmembers and qualitative research interviews with 10 leading officers on cargo vessels sailing along the coast of Norway. Survey results indicate that procedure negligence is related to work pressure and demanding working conditions. It is also related to outcome measures like personal injuries and perceptions of risk and safety. A positive organizational safety culture is experienced by respondents reporting of less procedure negligence. Interview results indicate, for example, that formal procedures are ignored or violated because of issues like efficiency demands and low-quality procedures, and that procedures more often are followed when they are perceived as useful and timely. In this article, it is thus suggested that a positive safety culture includes an alignment of formal and informal aspects of safety, which requires time to comply with practical procedures. Interviewees suggest that appropriate procedures are: (1) developed by the users, (2) continuously improved, (3) simplified, and (4) supervised by local expertise instead of general experts.

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The INDICATE safety program: evaluation of a method to proactively improve airline safety performance

Cited by 33 publications

References 13 publications

(Mis)understanding Safety Culture and Its Relationship to Safety Management

(Mis)understanding Safety Culture and Its Relationship to Safety Management

Development and validation of a multi-level air freight handling safety climate scale

Procedure Negligence in Coastal Cargo: What Can Be Done to Reduce the Gap between Formal and Informal Aspects of Safety?

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