Safety Culture as a Team Sport: The Football Metaphor

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Safety Culture as a Team Sport: The Football Metaphor

Conference Paper (2020)

Author(s)

Frank Guldenmund (TU Delft - Technology, Policy and Management)

Dylan Smibert (TU Delft - Technology, Policy and Management)

Research Group

Safety and Security Science

Organizational culture Shared understanding Metaphors Safety culture Team roles Creating safety

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20497-6_15 Final published version

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Publication Year

2020

Language

English

Research Group

Safety and Security Science

Volume number

969

Pages (from-to)

155-166

Publisher

Springer

ISBN (print)

978-3-030-20496-9

ISBN (electronic)

978-3-030-20497-6

Event

AHFE 2019 International Conference (2019-07-24 - 2019-07-28), Washington, United States

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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.