DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE TOWARDS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY ENFORCEMENT IN ROMANIAN COLLIERIES.

Organisational culture has been defined as a complex framework of national, organizational and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function. Unsafe behaviours play a major role in many of the accidents that are still occurring in the Romanian mining industry. Based on a thorough literature review, this paper aims to provide a practical framework for the process of identifying behavioural issues and taking effective action to address them. A framework for the development and maturation of organizational safety culture was formulated. The safety culture model proposed can be employed to enforce the safety climate within the Romanian collieries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]