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Resilient Safety Culture

A special issue of Safety (ISSN 2313-576X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2023) | Viewed by 29769

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Sherif Mohamed

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Guest Editor
School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD 4222, Australia
Interests: construction sustainability; workplace health and safety; process improvement; project leadership
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Dr. Sherif Mostafa

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Co-Guest Editor
School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport, QLD 4222, Australia
Interests: digital engineering; digital information asset management; simulation of engineering and construction systems; modular; pre-fabrication construction; virtual building; BIM; lifecycle visualisation; user experience and the IoT; value engineering and agile project management methodologies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special issue of Safety on the subject area of “Resilient Safety Culture”—a concept that has been attracting attention among both scholars and practitioners. This concept reflects and explains how an organisation’s psychological, behavioural, and contextual capabilities can be used to anticipate, monitor, respond, and learn in order to better manage safety risks. Having a resilient safety culture means continuously improving processes by committed staff who systematically cope with the complexity and unpredictability of today’s business environment.

This Special Issue aims to gather and present contemporary perspectives on developing a resilient safety culture in the workplace, where safety systems, culture, and resilience converge. Authors are encouraged to submit original theoretical and/or empirical work (including case studies). Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Resilient safety culture: meaning and understanding;
  • Engineering resilience into safety management systems;
  • Resilience and transforming safety practices;
  • Human performance and resilience;
  • Developing resilient safety culture;
  • Promoting resilience in the context of safety;
  • Ability to learn and anticipate;
  • Resilience culture and safety performance;
  • Communicating for resilience and safety;
  • Cultivating resilience across multiple organisational levels;
  • Creating resilience in an industry or system;
  • Organisational resilience.

Prof. Sherif Mohamed
Dr. Sherif Mostafa
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Safety is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Resilience
  • Safety culture
  • Safety practices
  • Adaptation
  • Complexity
  • Resilience situations
  • Organizational response
  • Risk and uncertainty
  • Behavioural capabilities
  • Psychological capabilities
  • Social mechanisms

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Safety Climate Assessment in Fuel Stations in the West Java Region
by Aryo Wibowo, Fatma Lestari and Robiana Modjo
Safety 2023, 9(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety9010009 - 19 Feb 2023
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Fuel station accidents still happen frequently all around the world. Accidents in fuel stations may cause harm to many. Fuel station environments must thus be managed well to maintain a high safety climate level. However, our literature review shows that research on the [...] Read more.
Fuel station accidents still happen frequently all around the world. Accidents in fuel stations may cause harm to many. Fuel station environments must thus be managed well to maintain a high safety climate level. However, our literature review shows that research on the safety climate in fuel stations is scarce. This study attempts to assess the safety climate level in fuel stations in the West Java region, Indonesia. The aims of this research are to acquire the safety climate level of fuel stations, review safety climate dimensions which need serious improvement, and discover key aspects that impact the safety climate level. To achieve these goals, the Bahasa Indonesia version of the NOSACQ-50 questionnaire was used to assess the safety climate in 240 fuel stations; 678 responses were collected. The findings show that the safety climate level of fuel stations was, on average, 3.07, which is a fairly good score. Among all seven dimensions, workers’ safety priority and risk non-acceptance need the most improvement. Moreover, safety training is found to be the most influential aspect on safety climate because workers with training experience have higher safety climate perceptions. Ironically, more than 28% of respondents reported that they had not been properly trained. Therefore, fuel stations need to make sure that all employees have attended appropriate safety training. In this way, higher safety climate ratings can be achieved, hence moving forward to a safer working environment. Full article
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Resilient Safety Culture and Safety Performance: Examining the Effect in Malaysian Paramedic Training Institute through Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA)
by Intan Suraya Noor Arzahan, Zaliha Ismail and Siti Munira Yasin
Safety 2022, 8(2), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety8020025 - 05 Apr 2022
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An increasing number of studies have shown that safety culture factors have a substantial influence on safety performance in a variety of industrial sectors. These factors’ impact on safety performance are unclear, especially at public service and statutory authorities. On the other hand, [...] Read more.
An increasing number of studies have shown that safety culture factors have a substantial influence on safety performance in a variety of industrial sectors. These factors’ impact on safety performance are unclear, especially at public service and statutory authorities. On the other hand, the understanding of indicators for safety performance in every working sector in Malaysia is continuing to progress. Hence, this study’s contribution is to explore the influence of safety culture factors (i.e., management commitment and supervision in safety, safety system) and safety competence on safety performance in government paramedic training institutes. Importance-performance map analysis (IPMA) is a technique used in Smart PLS to determine the significance and performance of each of these factors. The study was conducted via an online survey and involved 258 safety and health committee members in the Ministry of Health paramedic training institute. As a matter of relevance, the IPMA’s empirical data study revealed that management commitment and supervision in safety were the predominant factors in determining safety performance. Meanwhile, for performance, the findings showed that worker involvement, safety system, and safety competence perform well in determining safety performance. Full article
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Safety Climate and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Investigation on Safety Perceptions among Farmers in Italy
by Mario Fargnoli and Mara Lombardi
Safety 2021, 7(3), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7030052 - 02 Jul 2021
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The diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated numerous interventions aimed at reducing the contagion by means of specific prevention measures, also characterized by stricter occupational health and safety (OHS) procedures at the workplace. To better understand how this novel working context has [...] Read more.
The diffusion of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated numerous interventions aimed at reducing the contagion by means of specific prevention measures, also characterized by stricter occupational health and safety (OHS) procedures at the workplace. To better understand how this novel working context has impacted on farmers’ safety behavior and attitude, a safety climate assessment was carried out by means of the Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50), which was augmented to include specific items related to the modifications of working conditions due to COVID-19. This allowed us to analyze changes in safety climate perceptions, pointing out worker-manager discrepancies in safety behavior and attitude. Additionally, the COVID-19 questionnaire contributed to analyzing the effects of the specific OHS measures due to the pandemic from the workers’ standpoint. Results showed that concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic have augmented the attention paid to OHS, demonstrating a correlation between the safety climate dimensions and the OHS measures due to COVID-19. Besides, farmers’ risk-taking behavior and attitude appeared still critical, highlighting the need for more specific and contextual interventions in terms of safety information and training. Overall, this study aims to expand knowledge on shared safety awareness and perceptions in the COVID-19 period. Full article
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Impact of Construction Safety Culture and Construction Safety Climate on Safety Behavior and Safety Motivation
by Ahmed Jalil Al-Bayati
Safety 2021, 7(2), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/safety7020041 - 18 May 2021
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The construction industry is known for its disappointing safety performance. Therefore, rethinking current safety management frameworks is crucial. This study assesses a newly proposed construction safety culture and climate framework that aims to overcome the present ambiguity in the definitions and measurement of [...] Read more.
The construction industry is known for its disappointing safety performance. Therefore, rethinking current safety management frameworks is crucial. This study assesses a newly proposed construction safety culture and climate framework that aims to overcome the present ambiguity in the definitions and measurement of construction safety culture and construction safety climate. The goal is to provide a practical construction safety culture and safety climate framework that fits the construction industry’s needs. A survey was designed to validate the proposed framework and assess its influence on safety behavior and safety motivation. The survey was completed by 275 construction practitioners. The findings suggest that the construction safety culture initiates and maintains the construction safety climate. Similarly, the construction safety culture, which is represented by the actions of upper management and safety personnel, significantly contributes to higher levels of safety behavior and safety motivation, whereas the construction safety climate does not. Accordingly, this study highlights the importance of the construction safety culture’s influence on overall workplace culture. This study’s contribution to the body of knowledge is critical to improving construction workplaces’ overall safety performance. The findings can be strategically used by construction firms to address the construction industry’s higher rates of fatal and nonfatal injuries. Finally, the results obtained support the newly proposed framework of construction safety culture and climate, which, in turn, helps the industry better manage overall site safety. Full article
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