RAILWAY SAFETY CULTURE MODEL THEORY AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS JABŁOŃSKI A. JABŁOŃSKI M. Bankowa.pl

Railway Safety Culture Model

Theory and Practical Implications

The content, concepts, methods and techniques presented in the monograph are holistic, as the issue of railway traffic safety is holistic. The authors referred to numerous literature sources and practical conditions to thoroughly explain the determinants of the mechanisms of shaping safety culture in rail transport. In the authors' opinion, this work fills the knowledge gap in the place and role of safety culture as well as human and organizational factors in the processes of improving safety management systems in rail transport. It also analyzes the impact of technical aspects on the behavior of employees in the railway system. In particular, in the context of technical solutions, it refers to the effective use of railway traffic control devices and the principles of rail traffic control, assessed in terms of human and organizational factors. It should help managers improve the quality of railway undertaking management.

List of abbreviations 9
Introduction 11

Chapter 1
The scope and methodology of research into the mechanisms of shaping safety culture in rail transport 17
1.1. The general outline of scientific discussion 18
1.2. Theoretical assumptions 19

Chapter 2
Specific conditions for the functioning of entities in the rail sector 27
2.1. A railway enterprise as a High Reliability Organization 29
2.2. The place and role of railway infrastructure managers and railway undertakings in shaping safety culture in rail transport 35
2.3. The place and role of railway siding users in shaping safety culture in rail transport 37
2.4. The place and role of entities in charge of maintenance of railway vehicles (ECMs) in shaping safety culture in rail transport 39

Chapter 3
Safety management systems in rail transport and the functioning of railway enterprises 43
3.1. Safety management systems in railway enterprises and their safety culture 46
3.2. Risk management in railway enterprises and safety culture 56
3.3. Change and innovation management and shaping the safety culture of railway enterprises 61

Chapter 4
Safety culture as a specific type of the organizational culture of railway enterprises - assumptions 69
4.1. Safety culture in railway enterprise management 69
4.2. Technical safety culture in railway enterprise management 74
4.3. Occupational safety culture in railway enterprise management 76
4.4. Behavioral safety culture in railway enterprise management 78

Chapter 5
Safety culture as a specific type of the organizational culture of railway enterprises - operationalization 81
5.1. Safety culture and aspects of the workplace ergonomics in railway enterprises 81
5.2. OHS safety culture and the assumptions of OHS management systems 86
5.3. The concept of Just Culture and conditions of rail transport 89
5.4. Measurement of the safety culture of railway enterprises 92

Chapter 6
The place and role of a person in railway enterprises 97
6.1. Personnel competency management and the organizational culture of railway enterprises 97
6.2. A human factor in railway enterprises - key aspects 110
6.3. Awareness, commitment and motivation as the crucial attributes of the personnel of railway enterprises critical to railway safety 122
6.4. An organizational factor, occupational stress and the culture of the technical and occupational safety of railway enterprises 124

Chapter 7
Railway traffic control systems and railway traffic management versus human and organizational factors 129
7.1. Human and organizational factors in managing the configuration of railway technical systems 129
7.2. Human and organizational factors in the analysis of accidents in the rail transport sector 138
7.3. Human and organizational factors in railway traffic control and management systems 140

Chapter 8
The operationalization of management principles through safety culture in rail transport in terms of systems and processes - selected implementation solutions 145
8.1. An original model of shaping safety culture in rail transport 146
8.2. An original model of measuring safety culture in rail transport 149
8.3. The course of the management of safety culture processes and human and organizational factors 151

Conclusion 167
References 183
List of figures 195
List of tables 196
About the authors 197

220 pages, Paperback

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