Leadership, Safety Culture and Catastrophe: Lessons from 10 Cases Studies from 7 Safety Critical Industries
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In all safety critical industries, catastrophic accidents can happen, and have happened in the past. These accidents are not industry specific and the obvious commonality is the high inherent risk associated with the activities undertaken. However, other common themes can be identified in the root causes of the ten accidents in seven different industrial sectors reviewed in this paper. These are: leadership, cost and business pressure, safety culture, control and enforcement, contractors’ management, and communication.
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