Profiling contextual factors which influence safety in heavy vehicle industries》.pdf

Accident Analysis and Prevention 73 (2014) 340–350 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Accident Analysis and Prevention journa l homepage: www.e /locate/aap Profiling contextual factors which influence safety in heavy vehicle industries Jason R.D. Edwards *, Jeremy Davey, Kerry A. Armstrong Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Level 4, K-Block, 130 Victoria Park Rd., Queensland 4059, Australia A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: A significant proportion of worker fatalities within Australia result from truck-related incidents. Truck Received 4 April 2014 drivers face a number of health and safety concerns. Safety culture, viewed here as the beliefs, attitudes Received in revised form 28 July 2014 and values shared by an organisation’s workers, which interact with their surrounding context to Accepted 6 September 2014 influence behaviour, may provide a valuable lens for exploring safety-related behaviours in heavy vehicle Available online 29 September 2014 operations. To date no major research has examined safety culture within heavy vehicle industries. As safety culture provides a means to interpret experiences and generate behaviour, safety culture research Keywords: should be conducted with an awareness of the context surrounding safety. The current research sought to Safety culture exam