Factors that make up safety culture: a look at mining industry

Abstract The efforts made by researchers to understand the dynamics of work-related accident prevention are remarkable but not enough to exhaust the subject. The occurrence of such events implies significant losses for society, organizations and families, in addition to the injured individuals subject to the accident. This kind of phenomenon that still happens in contemporary organizations requires not only a purely mechanistic view but also the understanding of interpersonal relations in the employment context, which refers to the organizational culture. As a quantitative analysis, this study aimed to test a model related to the culture of safety in workplace, present in the literature, in the Brazilian mining industry. Based on the initial results and on the requirements pointed out by a group of security experts in this field, we suggested adjustments in the model and it was re-tested. The results confirmed the model applied in this study and they indicated that factors related to the culture of safety in this specific environment are organizational learning, information and commitment.摘要：研究者为探究职业事故预防的动态机制所付出的努力成效显著，但仍未能完全覆盖该研究主题。此类事故的发生，不仅会给事故受害者本人带来身心伤害，更会对社会、企业及家庭造成重大损失。这种仍在现代组织中持续出现的现象，既需要以纯粹的机械论视角进行剖析，也需要深入理解雇佣场景中的人际关系——而这正是组织文化（Organizational Culture）的核心内涵。作为一项定量分析研究，本研究旨在针对巴西矿业领域，检验现有文献中提出的工作场所安全文化（Safety Culture）相关模型。基于初始研究结果与该领域一众安全专家提出的优化需求，本研究对原模型进行了调整并开展了二次验证。最终结果证实了本次研究所采用的模型，同时表明该特定场景下的安全文化相关影响因素包括组织学习（Organizational Learning）、信息传递与组织承诺（Organizational Commitment）。