Browsing Scientific articles by Journals "Safety Science"
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Engineering resilience in a prison's performance management system
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)While organisations are becoming more complex than ever, their applied performance management (PM) systems are still based on the conventional PM approach, derived from the need for control and accountability. On the other ... -
Mind the gap: A qualitative approach to assessing why different sub-cultures within high-risk industries interpret safety rule gaps in different ways
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Measuring the distance between the performance of safety rules as imagined and safety rules as enacted in high-risk environments has been an area of great interest and debate in recent years. Yet a significant gap in our ... -
Organizational learning from construction fatalities: Balancing juridical, ethical, and operational processes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Construction work is associated with high risks of fatalities. Effective, deep and lasting learning from incidents is important for the safety of employees, but not well developed in the construction sector. We studied the ... -
Passive avoidant leadership and safety non-compliance: A 30 days diary study among naval cadets
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The leadership literature suggests that passive leadership undermines employee safety performance; because passive leadership behavior signals that the leader is not committed to organizational safety goals. We tested this ... -
The art of measuring nothing: The paradox of measuring safety in a changing civil aviation industry using traditional safety metrics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Measuring safety as an outcome variable within the ultra-safe civil aviation industry during periods of deliberate organizational change is a difficult, and often fruitless, task. Anticipating eroding safety processes, ...