Browsing TØI Vitenarkiv by Author "Phillips, Ross Owen"
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Bus stop design and traffic safety: An explorative analysis
Phillips, Ross Owen; Hagen, Oddrun Helen; Berge, Siri Hegna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02-09)One way to prioritize public transport over private vehicle mobility, is to implement curbside rather than layby bus stop designs. There is, however, uncertainty about the consequences of implementing curbside rather than ... -
Cognitive technology development and end-user involvement in the Norwegian petroleum industry – Human factors missing or not?
Sætren, Gunhild Birgitte; Ernstsen, Jørgen; Phillips, Ross Owen; Aulie, Eir G; Stenhammer, Hege Christin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-24)The petroleum industry is a high-hazard industry depending on reliable technical solutions. The industry tends to use increasingly advanced technologies including machine learning technology with increased difficulties for ... -
CONTRA Project report #1: Requirements identification and system mapping
Baharmand, Hossein; Balcik, Burcu; Decouttere, Catherine; Phillips, Ross Owen; Saeed, Naima; Vandaele, Nico (Research report, 2020)The research project “COVID-19 Network Technology-based Responsive Action” (CONTRA), funded by the Research Council of Norway, commenced in June 2020. The CONTRA project develops a decision support system (DSS) based on ... -
Covid-19 vaksine: tiden er knapp for planlegging av effektiv distribusjon
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Estimating Safety Outcomes of Increased Organisational Safety Management in Trucking Companies
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Phillips, Ross Owen; Hovi, Inger Beate; Jordbakke, Guri Natalie; Elvik, Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-05-06)The present study investigated possible consequences for the number of killed and seriously injured (KSI) in traffic if trucking companies in Norway introduced the organisational safety management (OSM) measures in the ... -
How Can Authorities Support Distributed Improvisation During Major Crises? A Study of Decision Bottlenecks Arising During Local COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-Out
Phillips, Ross Owen; Baharmand, Hossein; Vandaele, Nico; Decouttere, Catherine; Boey, Lise (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022-11-11)Despite the increased importance attributed to distributed improvisation in major crises, few studies investigate how central authorities can promote a harmonic, coordinated national response while allowing for distributed ... -
How can we improve safety culture in transport organizations? A review of interventions, effects and influencing factors
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Hesjevoll, Ingeborg Storesund; Phillips, Ross Owen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-02-02)The main objectives of the present study are to (a) map interventions that can be used to develop good safety culture in transport companies within road, sea, air and rail transport, (b) assess expected effects of interventions ... -
Internationalisation in Road Transport of Goods in Norway: Safety Outcomes, Risk Factors and Policy Implications
Nævestad, Tor-Olav; Phillips, Ross Owen; Levlin, Gunhild Meyer; Hovi, Inger Beate (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-21) -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Project report #3: Vaccine supply chain decision support system
Baharmand, Hossein; Balcik, Burcu; Boey, Lise; Decouttere, Catherine; Fossli, Håvard; Kjøndal, Jan Ove; Phillips, Ross Owen; Saeed, Naima; Vandaele, Nico (Research report, 2022) -
Risk compensation theory and bicycle helmets – Results from an experiment of cycling speed and short-term effects of habituation
Fyhri, Aslak; Sundfør, Hanne Beate; Weber, Christian; Phillips, Ross Owen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018-06-30)It has been suggested that the safety benefits of bicycle helmets are limited by risk compensation. The current study contributes to explaining whether the potential safety effects of bicycle helmets are reduced by cyclists’ ... -
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 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 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 ... -
Sociotechnical Factors Supporting Mobile Phone Use by Bus Drivers
Phillips, Ross Owen; Berge, Siri Hegna (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-07)Background: Sociotechnical measures could supplement traditional risk management measures and further reduce risks of collisions involving heavy vehicles. Such measures can be identified using methods rooted in sociotechnical ... -
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). ...