Adapting Safety Rules in a High Reliability Context How Wildland Firefighting Workgroups Ventriloquize Safety Rules to Understand Hazards

• Published in: Management communication quarterly Vol. 30; no. 3; pp. 362 - 389
• Main Author: Jahn, Jody L. S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.08.2016; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Compliance; Safety standards; Studies; Ventriloquism; safety rules; workgroups; high reliability organization; ventriloquism

Safety rules are unavoidable in hazardous work and are often codified insights from accidents and fatalities. Safety rules research predominantly focuses on factors that influence compliance and violation of rules (a rationalist view), but rarely examines how members draw from safety rules to take a...