Organizational factors and safety: The mediation effects of organizational processes

The research of safety related organizational factors is hampered for two reasons: 1, accident retrospect analysis is always single-direction, it is hard to make conclusion what is the effect of some organizational factors even some accident analysis find they are safety related. 2, latent failure, as a core concept in the field of organizational safety, still has not been studied at the level of detailed description. In this study, we use organizational process analysis to show the relationship between organizational factors and safety. Results from 391 employees´ questionnaire investigation show that organization processes are the mediate between the organizational factors and safety. Latent failure, which comes from some negative characteristics of organizational factors, could be represented by the negative condition of organizational processes.