Relationship between organisational safety culture dimensions and crashes

Abstract

Knowing about organisational safety culture in public transportation system can provide an appropriate guide to establish effective safety measures and interventions to improve safety at work. The aim of this study was investigation of association between safety culture dimensions (leadership styles and company values, usage of crashes information and prevention programmes, management commitment and safety policy, participation and control) with involved self-reported crashes. The associations were considered through Spearman correlation, Pearson chi-square test and logistic regression. The results showed an association among self-reported crashes (occurrence or non-occurrence) and factors including leadership styles and company values; management commitment and safety policy; and control. Moreover, it was found a negative correlation and an odds ratio less than one between control and self-reported crashes.

Keywords:

• safety culture
• public transportation
• crash

Acknowledgements

The authors express their gratitude to the senior managers of Bus Company and the middle managers and HSE experts in Tehran Transportation Bus Company. We thank Mr. Maryam Keramat Kar, PhD student at the University of Otago, for proof reading of the manuscript.