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Safety Management Systems and Safety Culture in the Transport Industry – a cross modal comparison
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- Project Leaders: Nick McDonald and Siobhan Corrigan
- Description:
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Important parameters such as safety fall between different imperfectly co-ordinated systems (product safety, occupational safety, traffic safety, public liability). For these reasons, safety in this increasingly important nexus of transport activity has not been either very extensively or coherently addressed. In order to rectify this it is necessary to understand how operational processes in this sector actually work and how people manage and cope with these processes in order to maintain the required operational flexibility to deliver an effective distribution service. Safety is a dimension of the situations and behaviours through which people enact these social and operational processes. Only by seeing safety as an outcome of behaviours and situations which are embedded in a wider framework of operational and social processes will it be possible to construct a model through which risk can be better understood and more effectively managed.
Therefore the overall objective is to develop a systemic model of urban multi-drop delivery operations, which describes both operational and social processes, within the context and constraints of both technology and regulation. This process model will provide a framework within which situational and behavioural risks can be identified and analysed which should therefore provide a basis for identifying how to manage and reduce those risks.
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