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Amtrak and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) have made recent efforts to improve their organizational safety cultures. By transforming their values and behaviors, these transportation organizations sought to reduce employee and passenger accidents and injuries, as well as build more collaborative cultures. This paper illustrates case studies of Amtrak and WMATA and examines the strategies and promising practices that these organizations employed to improve their safety cultures.

Author

• Marfione, Keith
• Buckley, Mark
• Putman, Hannah

Identifier

• Volume 19

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.4079/pp.v19i0.10429

Keyword

• Policy Perspectives
• Urban Policy

Date created

• 2012

Type of Work

• Article

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Trachtenberg School of Public Policy & Public Administration

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/work/rj430526v

License

• All rights reserved

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• Policy Perspectives

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