Studying Safety Culture of/at SCK-CEN: Approaches and Results

This presentation addresses the way "safety culture" has become an object of knowledge overtime, and how it has been understood, evaluated and eventually measured. After these general considerations, we go through specific aspects of SCK•CEN's safety culture analysis, and see how quantitative methods (for example questionnaires) might be fruitfully combined with qualitative methods (such as interviews) in order to understand at best how SCK•CEN employees act with regard to safety. In this respect, a specific focus will be given to the REX system (the incident reporting system used at SCK•CEN)