Correlation study on safety culture awareness and accident investigation recognized by railroad staff

This dissertation is based on the results of study on awareness of railroad staff when the companies managing urban railroad conduct internal investigation, for which was employed the items of technological-level system required by Railroad Safety Management System. That is, an analysis was carried out to find what moderating effect the safety culture awareness of railroad staff has on their existing internal training, utilization of investigators’ investigation method and their will to reflect their opinions. While previous studies on Railroad Safety Culture Awareness have been only for a rather superficial appreciation of railroad staff’s safety culture awareness, this dissertation aims at creating desirable ways for the investigation of railroad accidents through analyzing their cognition of work process activities of those employees in charge of accident investigation. The railroad accident investigation inside railway companies is being conducted so that accidents may be analyzed for any problems to be found or deducted in the resolution-oriented way. The regressive analysis using the SPSS 18 Program was applied for the estimation of the correlation among the variables which were to be studied. The study analysis revealed that railroad staff thought their opinions were actively reflected to the procedures of railroad-accident investigation when those investigators executed internal checkup and training with positive attitudes in their organizations. Plus, railroad staff’s cognition result was deducted that still more positive opinions of theirs would be reflected to those investigations in the condition where safety culture awareness and will for safety policy of railroad staff, managers and investigators were to be fostered in terms of Railroad Safety Precaution. Lastly, it was also revealed that the positive recognition of internal inspection will have a positive (+) effect on the rational procedures and utilizations resulting from investigation of accidents along with the fact that the higher management’s awareness of safety culture is, the more positive (+) influence on them there is.