Safety models, safety cultures: What link?

Abstract

At the request of industrial partners, the FonCSI’s Strategic Analyses Scientific Group (GSAS) has conducted some research on safety models and safety cultures. In this opinion piece, Claude Gilbert, Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and President of the GSAS, shares with us the group’s initial findings on this topic. This piece was also put forward to be used as the introduction to a research seminar which gathered international experts on 20th and 21th June 2016.