Abstract
Abstract A framework to measure safety culture maturity in Brazilian oil and gas companies was formulated based on the model of Hudson (2001). Following a review of the safety culture literature, a questionnaire was designed to measure aspects of organizational safety indicative of 5 levels of cultural maturity in Brazilian industry. This was completed by the safety managers (N=17) and workforce (N=161) of 17 petrochemical companies based in Camacari, Bahia, Brazil. The reliability of the questionnaire was checked and the Cronbach's α for each one five dimension range from α = 0.635 to α = 0.832, demonstrating good reliability of the measures used. The findings of the research demonstrate that the safety culture maturity model of Hudson (2001) was suitable, with slightly adaption, along with the framework to identify the stages of development of safety culture in the context of the Brazilian petrochemical industry. The differences between managers and workforce were not statistically significant. The companies studied presented characteristics of different stages of development of safety culture.
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