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Trust: Missing Piece(s) in the Safety Puzzle
Author(s) -
Conchie Stacey M.,
Donald Ian J.,
Taylor Paul J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00818.x
Subject(s) - distrust , counterintuitive , work (physics) , public relations , public trust , safety culture , social psychology , psychology , political science , management , engineering , epistemology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , economics , psychotherapist
While trust is increasingly recognized as a factor that impacts on safety behavior, the exact nature of trust and its role in shaping organizational safety is poorly understood. This special issue contains six articles that examine the relationship between trust and safety behavior in a range of high‐risk work contexts. The issue begins with two articles that introduce the complex nature of trust and the positive and negative roles that trust can play in shaping an organization's safety culture. This background is then developed by two articles that explore the role of trust and distrust in safety performance, and uncover a range of significant but often counterintuitive relationships between forms of trust and safe behavior. Finally, the issue concludes with two articles that examine the role that leadership may play in developing trust. These articles examine the conditions important for the development of trust in leaders, and the trust‐promoting actions that leaders can employ to influence employees' engagement in safety participation.