Returning to the roots of culture: a review and re-conceptualisation of safety culture.

Jason R.D Edwards; Jeremy Davey; Kerry Armstrong

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Returning to the roots of culture: a review and re-conceptualisation of safety culture.

June 5, 2013

Edwards JRD, Davey J, Armstrong K. Saf Sci. 2013;55.

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This article proposes a new way of defining safety culture based on how the fields of anthropology and cultural psychology interpret the broader concept of culture.

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