TY - JOUR
T1 - How the risk science can help us establish a good safety culture
AU - Aven, Terje
AU - Ylönen, Marja
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions to the original version of this paper.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper is about how we can make further sense of the safety culture concept in safety and risk management. Safety culture is here understood as shared beliefs, norms, values, practices and structures, with respect to safety, in an organization. We argue that the risk science (interpreted in its broadest sense to also include safety science) provides important reference points for what these beliefs, norms, values and practices should be. For example, the risk science highlights that complexity needs to be acknowledged and confronted by resilience-based strategies, in addition to the use of risk assessments. A safety culture which is not built on the state of the art of the risk science cannot be considered ‘good’. The main aims of the paper are to draw attention to this issue and present a framework that can help organizations to develop a safety culture that builds on the risk science.
AB - This paper is about how we can make further sense of the safety culture concept in safety and risk management. Safety culture is here understood as shared beliefs, norms, values, practices and structures, with respect to safety, in an organization. We argue that the risk science (interpreted in its broadest sense to also include safety science) provides important reference points for what these beliefs, norms, values and practices should be. For example, the risk science highlights that complexity needs to be acknowledged and confronted by resilience-based strategies, in addition to the use of risk assessments. A safety culture which is not built on the state of the art of the risk science cannot be considered ‘good’. The main aims of the paper are to draw attention to this issue and present a framework that can help organizations to develop a safety culture that builds on the risk science.
KW - risk analysis
KW - risk science
KW - Safety culture
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099417915&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13669877.2020.1871056
DO - 10.1080/13669877.2020.1871056
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85099417915
SN - 1366-9877
VL - 24
SP - 1349
EP - 1367
JO - Journal of Risk Research
JF - Journal of Risk Research
IS - 11
ER -