The structure of employee attitudes to safety: A European example

OSCI: an organisational and safety climate inventory

“…This scale was developed to include specific and relevant organisational safety behaviours (Cooper, 1998;Flin et al, 2000) and followed the items suggested by Carroll (1998), Cox and Cox (1991), Faria (1996), Lee (1998), Ostrom et al (1993), Williamson et al (1997). It includes 22 statements related to management safety activities (e.g.…”

Biases in incident reporting databases: an empirical study in the chemical process industry

“…Similarly, Powell et al (1971) finds that incidents may be seen as "part of the job" and cannot be prevented. This last point is supported by Cox & Cox (1991), who also put forward a belief in personal immunity ("accidents won't happen to me"; see also the "macho" culture in construction found by Glendon, 1991). O'Leary (1995) discusses several factors that might influence flight crew's acceptance of their organisation's safety culture, and thus their willingness to contribute to the organisation's reporting program: trust towards management diminished by industrial disputes; legal judgments ignoring performance reducing circumstances; pressure from society to allocate blame and punish someone; the military culture in aviation; and the fact that pilots, justified or not, feel responsible or even guilty for mishaps, which is a result from their internal locus of control combined with high scores on self reliance scales.…”

Assessment of the Quality of Job Descriptions of Safety Jobs in the Saudi Companies

“…Nevertheless, the presence of competent safety specialists has a significant impact on the safety culture of organizations (Wu et al, 2010;Wu et al, 2007;Wu, 2004, Tweeddale, 2001, which is "the attitude, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety in the workplace (Cox and Cox, 1991)." The presence of competent safety specialists is a key component of any OSH management systems.…”