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Safety Culture as a Team Sport: The Football Metaphor

Authors : Frank W. Guldenmund, Dylan Smibert

Published in: Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Safety culture remains an elusive concept, not only for scholars and practitioners but for the workers who actually have to deal with safety on a daily basis as well. The metaphor of football provides particular working groups a medium to explore the meaning of safety culture by drawing parallels with team roles, changing working conditions, the importance of production vs. safety and the creation of safety therein. Being a familiar team sport in many countries, the football metaphor can also function as a communication device within work teams to facilitate and promote a shared understanding of work and safety.

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Title
Safety Culture as a Team Sport: The Football Metaphor
Authors
Frank W. Guldenmund
Dylan Smibert
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-20496-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-20497-6

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20497-6_15