About the report

Today, in a world marked by escalating crises and significant deterioration in the global security landscape, good safety culture and safety behaviour within military organisations are crucial to managing risks and achieving a good level of safety and a good work environment. These aspects are key to the capacity for and credibility of risk-prevention in military operations. The results of the report are based on a rapid literature review method of published research papers that summarises the current state of knowledge.

The work of compiling knowledge has been guided by the following three research questions:

• What factors in the work environment at the individual, group and organisational levels promote a strong safety culture?
• What interventions, practices, or methods have been shown to contribute to a good safety culture or safety behaviour at the individual, group or organisational levels within military operations?
• How do safety regulations in policies and governance documents differ from how safety behaviour is actually dealt with, and how can this gap be bridged?

Authors

Jason Martin, Linköping University

Mattias Elg, Linköping University