In the present paper, we examined the safety culture and its correlations to negative and positive outcome variables among 1637 Finnish Defense Forces personnel. Participants rated the organizational, group and individual level of safety culture as well as levels of stress, lack of motivation, job satisfaction, positive atmosphere and number of risky incidents using a 92 part safety culture questionnaire. As expected, a good safety culture was positively correlated with positive and negatively correlated with negative outcomes.
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