The present paper is based on a sample of officers from Norway and the Philippines, the two main nationalities sailing on Norwegian owned vessels. The paper examines weather attitudinal ambivalence, fatalism, concern about safety, importance of working relations and negative safety emotions have effects on positive safety attitude among the two groups of officers. According to the Theory of Reasoned Action and Theory of Planned Behaviour (Fishbein, Ajzen, 1975, Ajzen, 1988) attitudes are important factors in shaping behavior. A recent comprehensive literature review by Smith and Wadsworth (2009) showed that attitudes and organizational safety culture were consistently associated with corporate safety performance. This research also identified an association between employee perceptions and attitudes towards safety and individual safety performance: Issue 1 2011 VVOOLL1155 2 “These analyses suggest strong associations between overall safety perceptions and both personal accidents and less serious injuries, and cognitive failures. Considering the individual safety perception factors, each factor was strongly associated with each individual performance outcome measure.”(Smith and Wadsworth, 2009 p 45)
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