Unpacking Relationship Between Safety Climate and Safety Behavior

Behavior-Based Safety and Continuous Improvement of Switching Yard Safety

Reduction of Injuries and Improvement of Safety Culture by CP Rail's Investigation of

Current Status of the FRA Confidential Close Call Reporting System (C3RS)

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Fatigue Accident Validation Database

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Relationships Between Psychological Safety Climate Facets and Safety Behavior in the Rail Industry: A Dominance Analysis

The goals of this study were twofold: (1) to confirm a relationship between employee perceptions of psychological safety climate and safety behavior for a sample of workers in the rail industry, and (2) to explore the relative strengths of relationships between specific facets of safety climate...

Safety Climate Dimensions, Leader-Member Exchange, and Organizational Support as Predictors of Upward Safety Communication in a Sample of Rail Industry Workers

The freedom employees feel to communicate safety concerns with their supervisors, termed upward safety communication, has been shown to be related to adverse safety events (Hofmann and Morgeson, 1999). Research to date has demonstrated that good supervisor-employee relationships (leader-member...

Development and Pilot Testing of Crew Resource Management Training Program for Railroad Industry

In response to the National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) recommendation, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) and Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) jointly developed a video-based CRM training course that was oriented largely to training of railroad operating crews (engineers...

The Use of HEART to Assess the Risk of Remote Control Locomotive Operations: A Tale of Two Cities

This paper discusses application of the Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique (HEART) with 2 yard switching employee subject matter experts. Each was asked to assess 11 conventional scenarios and 11 nearly-identical remote control scenarios. This paper also explores differences in how...

An Introduction to Human Systems Integration in the U.S. Railroad Industry

This paper describes and explores what Human Systems Integration is with regard to the U.S. railroad industry, how HSI can be of benefit when this systematic, organization-wide approach is used to implement new technology and modernize existing systems.