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Safety culture, the Glossary

Safety culture is the element of organizational culture which is concerned with the maintenance of safety and compliance with safety standards.^[1]

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Aberfan disaster

The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip on 21 October 1966.

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Aviation accidents and incidents

An aviation accident is an event during aircraft operation that causes serious injury, death, or destruction.

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Belief

A belief is a subjective attitude that a proposition is true or a state of affairs is the case.

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BP

BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union.

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A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.

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Confederation of British Industry

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is a British business interest group, which says it represents 190,000 businesses.

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Confucianism

Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy (humanistic or rationalistic), religion, theory of government, or way of life.

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Deepwater Horizon oil spill response

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred between 10 April and 19 September 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.

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E. Scott Geller

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Employment

Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services.

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Flixborough disaster

The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England, on Saturday, 1 June 1974.

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Health and Safety Commission

The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) was a United Kingdom non-departmental public body.

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Health and Safety Executive

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is a British public body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare.

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Hierarchical organization

A hierarchical organization or hierarchical organisation (see spelling differences) is an organizational structure where every entity in the organization, except one, is subordinate to a single other entity.

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International Atomic Energy Agency

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is an intergovernmental organization that seeks to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy and to inhibit its use for any military purpose, including nuclear weapons.

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James Reason

James T. Reason CBE (born 1 May 1938) is a former professor of psychology at the University of Manchester, from where he graduated in 1962 and where he was a tenured professor from 1977 until 2001.

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John Moreland (entrepreneur)

John Moreland (born June 19, 1965) is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist.

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Just culture

Just culture is a concept related to systems thinking which emphasizes that mistakes are generally a product of faulty organizational cultures, rather than solely brought about by the person or persons directly involved.

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King's Cross fire

The King's Cross fire occurred in 1987 at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London, England, causing 31 fatalities.

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Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509

Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509 was a Boeing 747-2B5F, registered HL7451 bound for Milan Malpensa Airport, that crashed due to instrument malfunction and pilot error on 22 December 1999 shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport where the final leg of its route from South Korea to Italy had begun.

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Korean Air incidents and accidents

The article describes accidents and incidents on Korean Air and its predecessor companies Korean National Airlines and Korean Air Lines.

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Ladbroke Grove rail crash

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash (also known as the Paddington rail crash) was a rail accident which occurred on 5 October 1999 at Ladbroke Grove in London, England, when two passenger trains collided almost head-on after one of them had passed a signal at danger.

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Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born 3 September 1963) is a Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker.

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MS Herald of Free Enterprise

MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Safety Council

The National Safety Council (NSC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public service organization promoting health and safety in the United States.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University (NC State, North Carolina State, NC State University, or NCSU) is a public land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

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Offshore drilling

Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed.

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Organization

An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.

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Organizational culture

Organizational culture refers to culture related to organizations including schools, universities, not-for-profit groups, government agencies, and business entities.

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PDCA

PDCA or plan–do–check–act (sometimes called plan–do–check–adjust) is an iterative design and management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products.

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Perception

Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.

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Piper Alpha

Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea about north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Policy

Policy is a deliberate system of guidelines to guide decisions and achieve rational outcomes.

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Procedure (business)

A procedure is a document that instructs workers on executing one or more activities of a business process.

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Procurement

Procurement is the process of locating and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process.

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Questionnaire

A questionnaire is a research instrument that consists of a set of questions (or other types of prompts) for the purpose of gathering information from respondents through survey or statistical study.

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Safety Science

Safety Science is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering research on all aspects of human and industrial safety.

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Senior management

Senior management, executive management, or upper management is an occupation at the highest level of management of an organization, performed by individuals who have the day-to-day tasks of managing the organization, sometimes a company or a corporation.

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Shell plc

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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The social norms approach, or social norms marketing, is an environmental strategy gaining ground in health campaigns.

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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

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Supply chain

A supply chain, sometimes expressed as a "supply-chain", is a complex logistics system that consists of facilities that convert raw materials into finished products and distribute them to end consumers or end customers.

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Systems theory

Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial.

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The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology

The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology (formerly The International Journal of Aviation Psychology until 2017) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the "development and management of safe, effective aviation systems from the standpoint of the human operators." It draws on aspects of the academic disciplines of engineering and computer science, psychology, education, and physiology.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Thiokol

Thiokol was an American corporation concerned initially with rubber and related chemicals, and later with rocket and missile propulsion systems.

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United Airlines

United Airlines, Inc. is a major American airline headquartered at the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois.

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Ursa tension leg platform

The Ursa tension leg platform is an oil platform with a tension leg structure located at about southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Value (ethics and social sciences)

In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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Workplace

A workplace is a location where someone works, for their employer or themselves, a place of employment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_culture

Also known as Safety climate.

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Nudge theory

Public safety

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