Background
Current occupational safety research is increasingly focusing on positive and proactive safety measures such as the ’climate’ of safety in a social unit, as opposed to negative measures such as accidents. Safety climate can be described as the shared safety perceptions in a social unit at a certain time, and recent research has found important relationships between measures of safety climate and safety performance. This course is based on state-of-the-art research concerning the definitions and dimensionality of the concept safety climate, including the Nordic Questionnaire on Occupational Safety Climate that is being developed by the Nordic Network of Occupational Safety Researchers.
Objectives
The main objective of the course is to provide participants with theoretical and practical knowledge on, and skills in measuring and working with, safety climate. After completing the course the participants will be able to distinguish between safety climate and safety culture, think critically about the dimensions involved in measuring safety climate, be aware of the pros and cons of longitudinal versus cross-sectional studies, and to have an understanding of questionnaire scales and the ethics involved in carrying out questionnaire studies.
Target groups
The course is targeted towards researchers and health and safety practitioners with interests in the concepts and methodology involved in the measurement of and intervention into safety climate. PhD and Masters’ students may negotiate with their university to receive credit of up to 72 course hours or 3-ECTS.
Course structure and learning methodology
Total of 10 day’s (three ECTS) course credit consisting of: a 3-day NIVA-course; 3 days for a questionnaire assignment prior to the course, and 4 days for literature reading and course preparation. Prior to the course students are to have read the course literature (200 pages) and collect 25 completed questionnaires (will be made available together with instructions for use in Danish, English, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish). The completed questionnaires are to be sent to the course leader 2-weeks prior to the start of the course - for analysis and use during the course. Course materials as well as a communication forum will be made available to students at the portal: www.nordically.org. The course will consist of lectures, open dialogue and group work.
Main lecturers
Marianne Törner, PhD
Associate Professor, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy,
University of Gothenburg,Sweden
Pete Kines, PhD,
Senior Researcher, Accident and Safety Research, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Kim Lyngby Mikkelsen, MD, PhD, Senior Researcher, Accident and Safety Research, National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Denmark
Anders Pousette, PhD
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Sweden
Jorunn Tharaldsen, Senior Researcher
International Research Institute of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.
Location and accommodation
The course will be held at Lo-skolen, Elsinore (Helsingør). The town is situated some 50 kilometres north of the city centre of Copenhagen.
From Copenhagen airport there is a direct train connection to Elsinore every 20 minutes. The travel time is one hour and all trains
leaving for Elsinore stop at Copenhagen central railway station. Please check www.dsb.dk
for more information.
Lo-skolen is beautifully situated on the outskirts of the medieval town of Elsinore. The course venue can be reached in approximately ten minutes
by bus from Elsinore station. For further details please visit www.loskolen.dk
Accommodation has been reserved for the participants at Lo-skolen. The total price of a single room with full board amounts to DKK 4270 (EUR 575),
starting Wednesday with lunch. The price covers accommodation, breakfast, lunch, dinner and conference coffees for all the course days.
In case of arrival on Tuesday, an additional cost of DKK 994
(EUR 135) will be charged for a single room incl. breakfast.
More information will be given in the confirmation letter, which will be sent to the participants after the registration deadline.
Registration deadline
21 July 2009. A letter of confirmation will be sent to the participants after the registration deadline.
Registration fee
EUR 450 (accommodation and meals are not included in this price).
All teaching and course materials are included in the fee.
When paying the registration fee, please indicate:
1. Your name, 2. registration fee, 3. course code 4910.
The payment should be made by 21 July to:
NIVA
Nordea Bank Finland Plc
Meilahti Branch, Tukholmankatu 2
FI-00250 Helsinki , Finland
Account no: 226238-2043
IBAN: FI79 2262 3800 0020 43
Swift code: NDEAFIHH
Please, note that if you cancel your participation later than 17 August, without an acceptable reason (e.g. illness), there will be no refund of registration fees.
Course Leaders
Marianne Törner, PhD, Associate Professor
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Department of Public Health and Community Medicine
Sahlgrenska Academy
University of Gothenburg
P.O. Box 414
405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
Phone: +46 (0)31 786 36 13
E-mail: marianne.torner@amm.gu.se
Pete Kines, PhD, Senior Researcher
Accident and Safety Research
National Research Centre for the Working Environment
2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Phone: +45 39 16 52 00
E-mail: pki@nrcwe.dk
Course coordinator
Annika Bärlund, NIVA
Topeliuksenkatu 41 a A
00250 Helsinki, Finland
Tel. +358 30 474 2333
E-mail: annika.barlund@ttl.fi
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