Publication detail

IDENTIFICATION OF SAFETY CULTURE LEVEL USING QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS

FEDORYCHEVA, I. HAMMER, M.

Czech title

POSOUZENÍ ÚROVENĚ BEZPEČNOSTNÍ KULTURY S VYUŽITÍM DOTAZNÍKOVÉ METODY

English title

IDENTIFICATION OF SAFETY CULTURE LEVEL USING QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS

Type

journal article in Scopus

Language

en

Original abstract

The aim of the present article is to provide information on the results of the safety culture assessment carriedout in three engineering companies in the Czech Republic in 2017. Determining the level of safety culture helps to reveal the weaknesses in the work process from the point of view of safety in a particular company and, of course, it also allows to propose the necessary measures for improvement. The article builds on the previous publications of the authors; therefore, it no longer announces the theoretical essence of the safety culture, but addresses the practical aspects of the subject based on factual examples. The article has two main parts. First, the issue of investigating the safety culture is described, including one of the selected approaches. The principles and techniques of questionnaire processing are analysed. The next part of the article introduces the results of the assessment. The issues of safety culture are quite extensive; it is not possible to tackle all of them in a single article. In some areas, the safety culture is not systematically addressed in its complexity. This also applies to engineering. In our workplace, we intensively focus on the issues of safety culture; some partial approaches and results are the content of the present article. Experience with the described assessment method can be useful or serve as a guide to analyse the level of safety culture in other industrial companies.

Czech abstract

Cílem tohoto článku je poskytnout informace o výsledcích hodnocení kultury bezpečnosti provedené ve třech strojírenských podnicích v České republice v roce 2017. Určení úrovně kultury bezpečnosti pomáhá odhalit slabé stránky pracovního procesu z pohledu bezpečnosti v určité společnosti a samozřejmě také umožňuje navrhnout nezbytná opatření ke zlepšení. Článek vychází z předchozích publikací autorů; proto již nerozebírá teoretickou podstatu kultury bezpečnosti, ale řeší praktické aspekty na základě faktických příkladů. Článek má dvě hlavní části. Nejprve je popsán problém zkoumání kultury bezpečnosti, včetně jednoho z vybraných přístupů. Analyzovány jsou principy a techniky zpracování dotazníku. Další část článku uvádí výsledky posouzení. Problematika kultury bezpečnosti je poměrně rozsáhlá; není možné ji řešit v jediném článku. V některých oblastech není bezpečnostní kultura systematicky řešena. To platí i pro strojírenství. Na našem pracovišti se intenzivně zaměřujeme na problematiku kultury bezpečnosti; některé dílčí přístupy a výsledky jsou obsahem tohoto článku. Zkušenosti s popsanou metodou hodnocení mohou být užitečné a mohou sloužit i pro analýzu úrovně kultury bezpečnosti v jiných průmyslových podnicích.

English abstract

The aim of the present article is to provide information on the results of the safety culture assessment carriedout in three engineering companies in the Czech Republic in 2017. Determining the level of safety culture helps to reveal the weaknesses in the work process from the point of view of safety in a particular company and, of course, it also allows to propose the necessary measures for improvement. The article builds on the previous publications of the authors; therefore, it no longer announces the theoretical essence of the safety culture, but addresses the practical aspects of the subject based on factual examples. The article has two main parts. First, the issue of investigating the safety culture is described, including one of the selected approaches. The principles and techniques of questionnaire processing are analysed. The next part of the article introduces the results of the assessment. The issues of safety culture are quite extensive; it is not possible to tackle all of them in a single article. In some areas, the safety culture is not systematically addressed in its complexity. This also applies to engineering. In our workplace, we intensively focus on the issues of safety culture; some partial approaches and results are the content of the present article. Experience with the described assessment method can be useful or serve as a guide to analyse the level of safety culture in other industrial companies.

Keywords in Czech

Bezpečnostní kulturní charakteristiky, konstrukce dotazníku, bezpečnostní interpretace, hodnocení bezpečnosti

Keywords in English

Safety culture characteristics, questionare construction, safety perfomance, safety culture assessment

Released

13.12.2017

Publisher

MM publishing, s.r.o. (2017)

Location

ČR

ISSN

1805-0476

Number

5

Pages from–to

2063–2068

Pages count

6

BIBTEX


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  author="Irina {Fedorycheva} and Miloš {Hammer},
  title="IDENTIFICATION OF SAFETY CULTURE LEVEL USING QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS ",
  year="2017",
  number="5",
  month="December",
  pages="2063--2068",
  publisher="MM publishing, s.r.o. (2017)",
  address="ČR",
  issn="1805-0476"
}