In any organization, safety performance will in some way be related to empl
oyee safety awareness and enhancement of awareness should lead to improveme
nt in safety performance. If awareness should lead to improvement in safety
performance. If awareness is to be enhanced, factors influencing awareness
need to be understood and influential factors developed and used to this e
ffect. This paper describes a study which sought to establish, in the conte
xt of a nuclear electricity generating company, if relationships do exist b
etween possible influences and safety awareness and, if so, to what extent.
The study revealed that five factors-training/experience, safety initiativ
es, communication, organization and personnel-were judged to be influential
and that some of these were key influences. The evidence may be used to in
fluence safety awareness enhancement in this organizational setting. There
may be a wider application of these results, certainly within the company a
nd possibly in other similar organizations.