Blar i TØI Vitenarkiv på forfatter "Nævestad, Tor-Olav"
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The limits of soft safety regulation: Does successful work with safety culture require SMS implementation?
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Phillips, Ross Owen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-06)The Swedish Transport Agency defined contributing to a high safety culture in transport companies as a key element in its regulatory strategy. This study examines how the safety culture strategy was received and enacted ... -
Mandatory periodic training for professional drivers: A Norwegian study of implementation and effects
Elvebakk, Beate; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Lahn, Leif Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06-30) -
Maritime safety culture and safety behaviours in Greece and Norway: Comparing professional seafarers and private leisure boat users
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Laiou, Alexandra; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Phillips, Ross Owen; Yannis, George; Bjørnskau, Torkel; Amundsen, Astrid Helene (Chapter, 2018-06-15)The present study compares professional seafarers and private leisure boat users in Norway and Greece. The aims of the present study are to examine the safety behaviours related to personal injuries and accidents among ... -
Mechanisms behind COVID-19 scepticism among socially marginalised individuals in Europe
Nero, Kristi; Orru, Kati; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Olson, Alexandra; Airola, Merja; Savadori, Lucia; Kazemekaityte, Austeja; Lovasz, Gabriella; Kajganovic, Jelena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-08)Homeless and materially disadvantaged people are considered particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 infection. So far, there is no systematic knowledge about how the homeless and materially disadvantaged people perceive the ... -
Organizational information security culture in critical infrastructure: Developing and testing a scale and its relationships to other measures of information security
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Meyer, Sunniva Frislid; Honerud, Jon Hovland (Chapter, 2018-06-15)The aims of the present study are to 1) develop and test a scale measuring organizational information security culture, and 2) examine its relationships to other aspects of information security. The study focuses on an ... -
Potential safety outcomes of communication difficulties in mixed nationality crews: A study of Greek and Norwegian vessels
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Laiou, Alexandra; Yannis, George; Michelaraki, Eva (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-13)The study examines potential safety outcomes of communication difficulties in mixed nationality crews on Greek and Norwegian cargo and passenger vessels. The aims are to examine the prevalence of unsafe situations due to ... -
Procedure Negligence in Coastal Cargo: What Can Be Done to Reduce the Gap between Formal and Informal Aspects of Safety?
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Phillips, Ross Owen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-14)Previous studies from the coastal cargo sector report of a considerable gap between formal and informal aspects of safety. Several maritime accident investigations point to this gap as an important contributory cause, ... -
Production and protection. Seafarers’ handling of pressure in gemeinschaft and gesellshaft
Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Laiou, Alexandra; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Yannis, George (Chapter, 2018) -
Resilience in care organisations: challenges in maintaining support for vulnerable people in Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic
Orru, Kati; Nero, Kristi; Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Schieffelers, Abriel; Olson, Alexandra; Airola, Merja; Kazemekaityte, Austeja; Lovasz, Gabriella; Scurci, Giuseppe; Ludvigsen, Johanna; de los Rios Pérez, Daniel A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-07)The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged the resilience of care organisations (and those dependent on them), especially when services are stopped or restricted. This study focuses on the experiences of care organisations that ... -
The role of values in road safety culture: Examining the relationship between valuation of freedom to take risk and accident risk among motorcycle riders and car drivers
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Laiou, Alexandra; Yannis, George (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-26)Focus on paternalistic values versus individual freedom is a fundamental theme, which defines the status of road safety in different settings. The present study examines the role of values related to freedom to take risk ... -
The role of values in road safety culture: Examining the valuation of freedom to take risk, risk taking and accident involvement in three countries
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Laiou, Alexandra; Rosenbloom, Tova; Elvik, Rune; Yannis, George (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-30)National focus on individual freedom versus paternalistic values is a fundamental theme, which defines the status of traffic safety in different countries. The present study examines the role of such values in road safety ... -
Safety culture among bus drivers in Norway and Greece
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Phillips, Ross Owen; Laiou, Alexandra; Bjørnskau, Torkel; Yannis, George (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-06-10)The aims of the present paper are to: (1) Examine the influence of national safety culture, sector safety focus and organizational safety culture on the safety behaviours of profes-sional drivers, compared with other ... -
Safety Culture Among Car Drivers and Motorcycle Riders in Norway and Greece: Examining the Influence of Nationality, Region, and Transport Mode
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Laiou, Alexandra; Yannis, George (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-08)The aims of the study are to (1) compare the road safety behaviors among car drivers and motorcyclists in five different regions in Norway and Greece, (2) examine the factors influencing the road safety behaviors in these ... -
Safety Culture among Private and Professional Drivers in Norway and Greece: Examining the Influence of National Road Safety Culture
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Laiou, Alexandra; Bjørnskau, Torkel; Phillips, Ross Owen; Yannis, George (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-16)While Norway had the lowest road mortality rate in Europe in 2017, Greece had one of the worst road safety records of all EU-27 countries. The present study investigates road safety culture (RSC) as an explanation for this ... -
Safety culture in maritime transport in Norway and Greece: Exploring national, sectorial and organizational influences on unsafe behaviours and work accidents
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Phillips, Ross Owen; Størkersen, Kristine Vedal; Laiou, Alexandra; Yannis, George (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-22)Highlights • The study compares crew members on Norwegian and Greek cargo vessels and passenger vessels. • The study examines the influence of national safety culture, sector safety focus and organizational safety culture ... -
Safety culture, safety management and accident risk in trucking companies
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Blom, Jenny; Phillips, Ross Owen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07-27)The Safety ladder for goods transport describes an approach with an increasing prevalence of safety structural measures at four Safety ladder levels in trucking companies. This paper validates the Safety ladder approach ... -
Safety culture, working conditions and personal injuries in Norwegian maritime transport
Nævestad, Tor-Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-14)The aim of the study is to examine the influence of safety culture and working conditions on personal injuries and risk perception on vessels sailing along the coast of Norway (mostly bulk, well and general cargo). The ... -
Safety outcomes of internationalization of domestic road haulage: a review of the literature
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Bjørnskau, Torkel; Hovi, Inger Beate; Phillips, Ross Owen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-11-20)The European Union (EU) promotes gradual lifting of restrictions on foreign hauliers involved in domestic road transport of goods (cabotage), and a major deregulation was scheduled in 2014. Due to complaints from several ... -
Self-imposed social isolation among clients of social care organisations in the COVID-19 pandemic
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Orru, Kati; Nero, Kristi; Schieffelers, Abriel; Olson, Alexandra; Ludvigsen, Johanna; Airola, Merja; Savadori, Lucia; Krüger, Marco; Gabel, Friedrich; Hesjevoll, Ingeborg Storesund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-11)Although self-imposed social isolation is an important way of reducing the risk of COVID-19 infection, previous research indicates that this behaviour varies substantially between different groups and individuals. Socially ... -
The safety ladder: developing an evidence-based safety management strategy for small road transport companies
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Elvebakk, Beate; Phillips, Ross Owen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-07-08)Traffic accidents account for between 20% and 40% of work-related accidents in industrial countries, and research indicates that road transport companies often have little focus on organisational safety management (OSM). ...