The Impacts of National Culture on Safety Culture in the Global Oil and Gas Industry

Safety culture is one of the most-studied subjects in the safety literature today, although no agreement exists on exactly what it means. Most safety culture research has been conducted in high-hazard industries such as nuclear power, aviation, and offshore oil and gas production. Only limited research has investigated links between safety culture and the prevailing national culture. This paper proposes that efforts to build safety culture and improve safety performance in the global oil and gas industry will be enhanced if the safety culture maturity and the prevailing national culture are assessed and a location-specific plan is developed based on these factors. A model plan to improve safety performance for one multinational oil and gas company is presented.

Quantifying Non-Tariff Measures for TTIP. Paper No. 12 in the CEPS-CTR project ‘TTIP in the Balance’ and CEPS Special Report No. 116/July 2015

This paper provides an overview of methods employed to quantify non-tariff measures (NTMs) and then analyses their differences and looks at what these mean for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations. The authors find several similarities in the approaches taken. Because all studies conclude that NTMs matter, they argue that policy-makers are right to focus on ‘regulatory cooperation’ in TTIP. Given the significant differences in NTMs across sectors, policy-makers are urged to dive deep into sector-specific elements of NTMs and focus on those sectors where the largest potential gains can be made (i.e. where NTMs are highest, such as in agriculture, automobiles, steel, textiles and insurance services). An area identified for further research is the fact that unlike trade taxes (i.e. tariffs), regulatory barriers to trade are not generally targeted as the primary policy objective, but rather stem from other strategic policy concerns such as consumer safety and/or social and environmental protection. This element should be further investigated.

Profiles of material supplier industries to the automotive manufacturers. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Profiles of automotive suppliers industries - engineered mechanical components.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Safe performance curriculum performance measures development. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Study of consumer automotive preference with regard to fuel economy measures.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Technical consideration on survival measures and reduction of casualties /

"Health and Safety."

Traffic safety and health care: state and national estimates of employer costs.

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Inconclusive proofs of payoff in driver education and other crash prevention measures.

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Cooperating for greater highway safety.

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Driver exposure - indirect approach for obtaining relative measures.

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Evaluation report - alcohol safety action projects, 1971.

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Evaluation of safety belt education program for employees. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

The drinking driver and traffic safety project. Annual report. Volume I of two volumes.

National Highway Safety Bureau, Washington, D.C.

Papers on car size - safety and trends. Technical report.

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