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Tor-Olav Nævestad

Researcher at University of Oslo

Publications -  59
Citations -  627

Tor-Olav Nævestad is an academic researcher from University of Oslo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Safety culture & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 41 publications receiving 450 citations.

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Mapping Research on Culture and Safety in High‐Risk Organizations: Arguments for a Sociotechnical Understanding of Safety Culture

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that a major challenge of much safety culture research is that it runs the risk of neglecting the organizational, meso level, and that it often seems to lack a proper conceptualization of the relationship between culture, technology and structure in high-risk organizations.
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Traffic safety among motorcyclists in Norway: A study of subgroups and risk factors

TL;DR: The results reveal that riders of racing replica bikes (sport bikes), and riders younger than 19 years, including especially youths riding light motorcycles (≤125 cm(3)), are subgroups of Norwegian motorcyclists with particularly high accident risks.
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How Can the Safety Culture Perspective be Applied to Road Traffic

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined three alternatives: (1) local communities, (2) nations, and (3) peer groups, and concluded that while the local community alternative and national alternative appear too heterogeneous, the peer group alternative provides what seems to be a new and promising basis for targeted traffic safety interventions.
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Traffic Accidents Triggered by Drivers at Work – A Survey and Analysis of Contributing Factors

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined whether and to what extent risk factors of severe road traffic accidents in Norway can be traced back to work-related factors such as too high speed for the circumstances, failure to use seat belt and insufficient information gathering were the most important risk factors in fatal accidents triggered by drivers at work.
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Safety Cultural Preconditions for Organizational Learning in High-Risk Organizations

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that cultural redundancy is a precondition for processes of learning and culture change that may reduce ignorance to hazards and signals of danger in high-risk organizations.