Making sense of safety

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dc.contributorGuyotte, Kelly W.
dc.contributorWiest, John M.
dc.contributorWilliamson, Derek G.
dc.contributorDeCaro, Jason A.
dc.contributor.advisorMeares, Mary M.
dc.contributor.authorHuey, Marcy Rayburn
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-02T19:54:54Z
dc.date.available2017-03-02T19:54:54Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe increased calls for an improved academic safety culture currently being issued by regulatory organizations outlines a very prescriptive approach to addressing safety in colleges and universities. This study focused on how academic researchers made sense of and responded to the safety programs that have been instituted by their organizations. The focus was on scientific researchers who have active research laboratories. The data was collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed with grounded theory. The results indicated that these researchers grounded their understanding of safety and of institutional safety programs in their professional identity, developed during their own educational and early professional experiences. Further study is warranted to determine if these findings are indicative of these scientific fields across the country. This data suggested that prescriptive compliance requirements regarding safety activities would not be easily accepted by these groups if they were not consistent with this identity. While they were not overtly noncompliant, they did resist institutional safety requirements placed on them that were not in line with the social norms of their professional group. These results could lead to an altered approach towards addressing safety concerns at colleges and universities.en_US
dc.format.extent134 p.
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0002459
dc.identifier.otherHuey_alatus_0004D_12897
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/2750
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.titleMaking sense of safetyen_US
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etdms.degree.disciplineInterdisciplinary Studies
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.

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