Networks of influence
practising safety leadership in low hazard environments
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Guidance notes and safety standards to improve organisational safety increasingly encourage safety leadership. However, two things still remain unclear: who are safety leaders and what do they do to ensure safety? This study addressed these questions, looking at low-hazard environments characteristic of service sector organisations.
The study, undertaken by the University of Cranfield, had the following research objectives:
- to identify types of safety leadership and to characterise the contexts in which each is displayed
- to determine the kinds of practices enacted and shaped by safety leaders at different levels in organisations typical of LHEs
- to discover how the safety leadership practices of individual leaders vary over time in LHEs
- to reveal the social interaction between workers within organisations operating in LHEs.
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Last updated: 17 July 2024