Background and aims: Various factors affect the safety performance of employees and safety locus of control (SLOC) is one of the main determinants. People with an internal locus of control believe that they can control events and conditions and People with an external locus of control believe that events caused by factors such as chance, fate, environment and performance of other people. Theref...

Introduction: safety culture is a term which is used repeatedly in the assessment of safety status of companies. The aim of present study was to investigate the parameters and factors influencing organizational safety culture in the Iranian thermal power plants industry. Method: Triangulation approach was used for data generation in this grounded theory study. Nineteen participants from a va...

Background and aim: hazardous materials transport is one of the most important problems in developing countries. The accidents involving the fleet of hazardous materials transport can have irreparable consequences. The study was aimed to present safety performance assessment pattern of road trucks with risk assessment approach. Methods: This is a descriptive study. In this study, the Accidents...

Public reliance on air transport industry as one of burgeoning factors of world economy is based on aviation safety. But the current challenge of aviation industry is the lax surveillance of safety standards by related governments which is basically due to illegal registration of aircraft. This article with reliance to the position of legal elements in achieving aviation safety has analyz...

Background and Aim: Many organizational factors can be used as determinants of unsafe behaviors; one of the most prominent is the safety climate. The chemical industry has a great potential for catastrophic accidents due to the critical process parameters and the significant volume of hydrocarbon materials. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the components of occupational ...

Safety is the most important issue with significant political, social and economical influences in the critical industries especially in nuclear and aviation. Reliability and safety in these systems is the premiere goal among the other objectives such as economics. In this study, applied risk management methodologies are reviewed for both aviation and nuclear industries. Besides the risk manage...