Looking for Cultural Differences in your own Backyard

Elsebet Frydendal Pedersen

Abstract

This article intends to discuss safety culture in the Danish construction industry and aims to demonstrate the value of this understanding in relation to preventive activities in the everyday working environment. The article discusses how safety culture is defined and understood. A short presentation of the Danish construction industry is given highlighting well known safety risks and finally three cases dealing with different aspects of the working environment are presented; one dealing with prevention of accidents, another with prevention of muscular skeleton diseases and finally a case demonstrating how changed aspects in using modern management’s theories can improve everyday safety on site.

Original language	English
Publication date	2009
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	InterConstruct Conference 19th – 20th of May - Edinburgh Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

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Conference	InterConstruct Conference 19th – 20th of May
City	Edinburgh
Period	01/01/2009 → …

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