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This article examines how more effective safety leadership can be supported by understanding the structure of informal networks within the organization. Results from a pilot study at a major industrial interest are used to describe how network centrality and operational discipline scores may be used together to identify key players in the establishment and strengthening of positive safety culture.

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While the use of organizational network analysis for organization development is not new, it's use remains less common within the process safety domain. Furthermore, our concurrent application of network analysis and knowledge of operational discipline offers an example of how the relational paradigm can be blended into other analytical tools for modeling both the workforce and a work site's overall risk profile.

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This page is a summary of: Cracking the code of process safety culture with organizational network analysis, Process Safety Progress, November 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/prs.11793.
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