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Towards an Effective Assessment of Safety Culture

안전문화 평가방안 연구

  • Hong, In-gie (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation) ;
  • Baek, Jong-bae (Department of Safety Engineering, Korea National University of Transportation)
  • 홍인기 (한국교통대학교 안전공학과) ;
  • 백종배 (한국교통대학교 안전공학과)
  • Received : 2014.10.13
  • Accepted : 2016.01.04
  • Published : 2016.02.29
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify issues for an effective safety culture assessment by conducting a case study of an electronics manufacturing plant in Korea. Cooper's safety culture model was used as the assessment method, and Fleming and Hudson's safety culture maturity models were applied as assessment criteria. The results of the safety culture assessment showed that there needs to be a design optimized for study purposes. For example, the correlation between the questionnaire survey and in-depth interview needs to be analyzed. The result of the behavior monitoring should show the relationships with other dimensions. A safety culture maturity model has to be developed to customize the study factors and questions.

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