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The investigation of safety management systems and safety culture

Since every Safety Management System (SMS) is intended to provide a framework by which an organisation manages risk, it is inevitable that accident investigators will take a close interest. The good investigator will always want to understand how the SMS was intended to control risk and how this control failed when put to the test. This paper seeks to provide a practitioner's view on the investigation of SMS. In doing so it hopes to answer the following questions: What are the key elements of a typical safety management system that an investigator is likely to encounter? How should the role of these elements in the causation of an accident be investigated? How have SMSs been featured in real investigations? How should the investigator address safety culture? Can investigations influence the shape of safety management systems?

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: International Transport Forum Discussion Paper ; No. 2017-20

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Schienenverkehr
Verkehrssicherheit
Arbeitsschutz
Risikomanagement
Unternehmenskultur
Bewertung
Unfall
Großbritannien

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
French, Simon
Steel, Tabitha
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Transport Forum
(where)
Paris
(when)
2017

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • French, Simon
  • Steel, Tabitha
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), International Transport Forum

Time of origin

  • 2017

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