IT Tool for Aiding Assessment of Safety Culture Level in an Organization

Abstract:

The following paper presents an IT tool for aiding assessment of a safety culture level in an organization in a form of an application, providing fast and easy way to analyze data obtained from questionnaires. Traditional data analysis often turns out to be time-consuming and labor-intensive. To make the process faster, more detailed and to find all the possible links among all the available data there is a need for an IT tool. The presented application has been developed with publicly available and completely free tools and technologies. It is a complete piece of software, fully flexible which can be modified or equipped with new functions (modules). The presented solution eliminates the time consuming process of “copying” data from paper questionnaires, and allows to get information about the safety culture level right after adding a questionnaire to a questionnaire database. The presented tool can function as a mobile questionnaire which can be used in any place with Internet access and to fill it in only a browser is required.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 795)
• Pages: 77-83
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.795.77
• Online since: October 2015
• Authors: Izabela Gabryelewicz*, Patryk Krupa, Joanna Sadłowska-Wrzesińska
• Keywords: IT Tool, Safety Climate, Safety Culture, Web Application

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