<p>Many tools exists that allow the investigation of incidents and safe behavior on the workplace, such as the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Factors_Analysis_and_Classification_System" rel="nofollow noreferrer">HFACS</a>) or the System Hardware Environment Lifeware Lifeware (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHELL_model" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SHELL</a>) model. Both describe the importance of the influence of the (culture within an) organisation on (un)safe behavior. </p>

<p>These tools are used to proof whether the organisation plays a role in an incident or, in general, in unsafe behavior. However, where did these models base the assumptions on that the organisation plays a role? <strong>Was there scientific evidence that shows that the organisation can promote (un)safe behavior?</strong></p>

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2017-04-13T06:32:16.680Z
@Will, That would indeed be an interesting paper for an answer. Questionnaires about people's attitude about safety would be nice thus, but also logical reasoning or accident investigations. What made people believe that the organization may play a part in human error.
Robin Kramer-ten Have
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2017-04-13T06:39:50.400Z
Regardig the "using their own tools as evidence for... ". It was not necessarily criticism, but rather a remark stating the need (for me) to have evidence that is not provided by those tools themselves, because that would be too easy.
Robin Kramer-ten Have
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@Will http://advancedd.wagpet.com.au/uploads/5/6/1/7/56178433/near_miss_article.pdf Did some further searching and this paper would be a nice start. It goes into the theoretical reason why and how an organization can influence (un)safe behavior and human error. I will try to formulate an answer myself, also, anytime soon.
Robin Kramer-ten Have
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@RobinKramer Did you manage to formulate an answer to this?
Chris Rogers
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2017-07-19T04:55:49.867Z
@Chris no I haven't yet. Haven't had much time. I did think of studies by Reason on human error, and the Swiss cheese model, which could like be a basis for the answer
Robin Kramer-ten Have
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Organisation as a factor for safe behavior on the work-place
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# Organisation as a factor for safe behavior on the work-place

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-03-16)

Many tools exists that allow the investigation of incidents and safe behavior on the workplace, such as the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System ([HFACS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Factors_Analysis_and_Classification_System)) or the System Hardware Environment Lifeware Lifeware ([SHELL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHELL_model)) model. Both describe the importance of the influence of the (culture within an) organisation on (un)safe behavior.

These tools are used to proof whether the organisation plays a role in an incident or, in general, in unsafe behavior. However, where did these models base the assumptions on that the organisation plays a role? **Was there scientific evidence that shows that the organisation can promote (un)safe behavior?**

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> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: @Will, That would indeed be an interesting paper for an answer. Questionnaires about people's attitude about safety would be nice thus, but also logical reasoning or accident investigations. What made people believe that the organization may play a part in human error.  
> **username_0**: Regardig the "using their own tools as evidence for... ". It was not necessarily criticism, but rather a remark stating the need (for me) to have evidence that is not provided by those tools themselves, because that would be too easy.  
> **username_0**: @Will http://advancedd.wagpet.com.au/uploads/5/6/1/7/56178433/near_miss_article.pdf Did some further searching and this paper would be a nice start. It goes into the theoretical reason why and how an organization can influence (un)safe behavior and human error. I will try to formulate an answer myself, also, anytime soon.  
> **username_1**: @RobinKramer Did you manage to formulate an answer to this?  
> **username_0**: @Chris no I haven't yet. Haven't had much time. I did think of studies by Reason on human error, and the Swiss cheese model, which could like be a basis for the answer  

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