@article{ref1,
title="Can survey measures predict key performance indicators of safety? Confirmatory and exploratory analyses of the association between self-report and safety outcomes in the maritime industry",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2020",
author="Hjellvik, Line Raknes and Sætrevik, Bjørn",
volume="11",
number="",
pages="e976-e976",
abstract="Safety management may be improved if managers implement measures based on reliable empirical knowledge about how psychological factors cause or prevent accidents. While such factors are often investigated with self-report measures, few studies in the maritime industry have investigated whether self-report measures predict objectively registered accidents. The current pre-registered study used structural equation modelling to test whether &quot;Safety attitude,&quot; &quot;Situation awareness,&quot; &quot;Reporting attitude&quot; and &quot;Safe behaviour&quot; predicted &quot;Number of reports&quot; and &quot;Number of safety events&quot; in the following year. The study was conducted among crew on chemical tanker vessels operating in Arctic and Baltic waters. The pre-registered model of expected associations between self-reported safety factors and recorded safety outcomes was not supported. However, an exploratory model based on the pre-registered hypotheses supported an association between self-reported &quot;Safe behaviour&quot; and the overall number of recorded safety outcomes. While much safety research in the maritime industry builds on the assumption that self-reported behaviour, attitude or cognitions are causally related to actual accidents, the current study shows that such a relationship can be difficult to confirm. Until more conclusive studies are performed, the assumed causal relationship between self-reported psychological factors and safety outcomes should be treated with caution.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00976",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00976"
}