Safety culture and automated vehicles a prestudy

Important results from the project

The aim was to anchor the view of safety culture with industrial partners through several workshops. Safety in automation is technology-driven and the study proposed a system view so that safety culture can be measured and integrated by producers and their customers. Exchanges of existing practice and knowledge of safety culture were performed and a study design for a larger study were produced with models to integrate safe, sustainable, and gender equal culture with full automation.

Expected long term effects

There are few studies focusing on safety culture and automation, therefore no working models and tools to measure exist, to develop safety culture in design and implementation. There is a need to identify new risks, new roles and division of responsibilities, priorities, learning, leadership, and employee behavior. Models and tools need to be adapted to design and technology where risks lay in the future and where the autonomous product may become a service to integrate in the customer´s safety culture.

Approach and implementation

The pre-study carried out several workshops, as well as a literature study and a seminar on the concept of safety culture. Different working models were analyzed concerning safety culture in companies that develop and design autonomous vehicles and participants exchanged experiences on safety development of fully autonomous vehicles. Instruments to measure sustainability, gender equality and safety culture, were presented and discussed. All activities formed a knowledge base for a full study