Abstract

LIMA, Maria Luísa. Risk Perception and Safety Cultures in Organisations. Psicologia [online]. 1998, vol.12, n.2, pp.379-386. ISSN 0874-2049.  https://doi.org/10.17575/rpsicol.v12i2.584.

Organisational safety is a recent field of research in behavioural Sciences. In this paper we aim at (1) stressing the importance of social factors on the origin of work accidents (on the classification of a situation as dangerous, on the judgement of probabilities associated with accidents, and on the individual decision for a safe behaviour). This point supports our claim that accidents cannot be conceived as the error of a single individual, but as the result of ongoing social processes. (2) showing that the organisational strategies for accident prevention are dependent on a more global view of the organisation. Specifically, we maintain that safety culture should be conceived as a part of a more global organisational culture.

Keywords : segurança nas organizações; acidentes de trabalho; prevenção; percepção de risco.

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