Data on Risk Management Described by Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University (Comparing safety culture and learning culture)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- Research findings on Risk Management are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Glasgow, United Kingdom, by VerticalNews editors, research stated, "This article examines the alignment of learning and safety culture in organisations. It tests the hypothesis that factors that indicate a good learning culture might also signify good safety and vice versa."

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Glasgow Caledonian University, "The hypothesis was tested through an intensive literature review. Areas of alignment of learning culture and safety culture were identified. Six components of learning culture and safety culture can be measured by the same instrument. These components form guiding principles for measurement of safety culture and learning culture. Another eight component areas were identified where learning culture and safety culture partially align. Four further components were found to be relevant to either safety culture or learning culture and do not align."

According to the news editors, the research concluded: "Overall, there is a relationship between learning culture and safety culture, but gauging one does not provide a reliable measure of the other."

For more information on this research see: Comparing safety culture and learning culture. Risk Management-Journal of Risk Crisis and Disaster, 2014;16(4):272-293. Risk Management-Journal of Risk Crisis and Disaster can be contacted at: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Brunel Rd Bldg, Houndmills, Basingstoke RG21 6XS, Hants, England.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A. Littlejohn, Glasgow Caledonian University, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow G4 0BA, Lanark, United Kingdom. Additional authors for this research include D. Lukic and A. Margaryan.

Keywords for this news article include: Europe, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Risk Management

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