Abstract
This paper deals with the influence of organizational communication on safety. Accidents are
actually caused by individual mistakes. However the underlying causes of accidents are often
organizational. As a link between these two levels - the organizational failures and mistakes - I
suggest the concept of role distance, which emphasizes the organizational characteristics. The
general hypothesis is that communication failures are a main cause of role distance and
accident-proneness within organizations. A general classification of communication is
presented, and safety communication and obstacles are distinguished. The analysis at various
levels does not falsify all my hypotheses, and several dimensions of communication seem to
be of interest for the safety.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | s.n. |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |