A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
Revealing Asymmetries in Safety Culture through Proactive Vision
Authors: Kantola JI, Vanharanta H, Laukkanen I, Piirto A
Editors: Eddy De Rademaeker, Bruno Fabiano, Simberto Senni Buratti
Conference name: EFCE International Conference on Loss Prevention and Safety Promotion in the Process Industries
Publication year: 2013
Journal: Chemical Engineering Transactions
Book title : LP2013 - 14TH SYMPOSIUM ON LOSS PREVENTION AND SAFETY PROMOTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES, VOLS I AND II
Journal name in source: LP2013 - 14TH SYMPOSIUM ON LOSS PREVENTION AND SAFETY PROMOTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES, VOLS I AND II
Journal acronym: CHEM ENGINEER TRANS
Volume: 31
First page : 319
Last page: 324
Number of pages: 6
ISSN: 1974-9791
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3303/CET1331054
Communicating with personnel is difficult if the concept under consideration is complex, hard to perceive, and/or has characteristics that are fuzzy in nature and need a long-term perspective to show results as a real benefit and advantage. Safety culture concepts belong to this type of management object. They have characteristics that are difficult to manage and lead, and that are difficult to articulate in detail to the organization. In fact, safety culture is one of the key concepts in modern safety management science and research. Contemporary scientists like to bring in new constructs to understand the mechanisms behind safety culture better; however, measuring abstract concepts like these needs support from theory and methodology, so that communication with personnel can be objective and, from a management point view, effective. In this research, we have used online applications to evaluate current safety culture levels, and to gain insight into how members of industrial organizations are willing to reveal their proactive vision, as well as their priorities in safety culture concepts, within their organization. In this research work we present practical safety culture knowledge asymmetries, which are crucial to comprehend from the viewpoint of safety leadership and management. The dataset used for this article contains 14 industrial companies with hundreds of participants.
