Equity in safety: how transportation safety professionals in Alberta’s trucking industry view their roles, their systems, and their industry

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dc.contributor.authorElniski, David Alexander
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorBonifacio, Glenda
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-23T21:23:49Z
dc.date.available2024-01-23T21:23:49Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.degree.levelMasters
dc.description.abstractThis study examines equity and equality from a qualitative, critical theory perspective in occupational and trucking-specific safety dynamics in Alberta’s trucking industries. Based on interviews with twelve trucking safety professionals currently working in their profession in Alberta, either as carrier employees or independent consultants, this study investigates how equity and equality are used in the management of trucking safety systems and how trucking professionals, and the systems they oversee, address social and cultural factors such as socioeconomics, gender, and ethnicity on safety performance. Results indicate that trucking safety systems are fundamentally equality-based: the goal is no negative incidents of loss for everyone affected by a company’s activities. Trucking safety professionals use equity-based and equality-based approaches to safety management, with equity-based approaches generally used for training and mentoring at the level of individual workers. Using reflexive thematic analysis, I describe the following five themes: 1) safety activities focus on compliance, not necessarily safety outcomes; 2) employer power over staff greatly influences safety outcomes; 3) safety professionals believe in the importance of the work they do; 4) the personal is professional, and; 5) equity and equality, as ways to get to equality, lie on a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Further research is recommended to examine, in praxis at a carrier, what safety management activities are more effective when based on equity, equality, or a degree of both.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6663
dc.language.isoen
dc.proquest.subject0709
dc.proquest.subject0354
dc.proquest.subject0733
dc.proquestyesYes
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Women and Gender Studies
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Women and Gender Studies
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Science
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)
dc.subjecttransportation safety professionals
dc.subjecttrucking industry
dc.subjectAlberta
dc.subjectequity and equality
dc.subjectcritical theory
dc.subjectoccupational safety
dc.subjecttrucking safety systems
dc.subjectsafety performance factors
dc.subjectsafety management
dc.subject.lcshTransportation--Alberta--Safety measures
dc.subject.lcshTrucking--Alberta--Safety measures
dc.subject.lcshTrucking--Alberta--Safety measures--Management
dc.subject.lcshEquity
dc.subject.lcshEquality
dc.subject.lcshTraffic safety
dc.subject.lcshCritical theory
dc.subject.lcshCommercial vehicles--Alberta--Safety measures
dc.subject.lcshIndustrial safety
dc.subject.lcshSafety consultants--Research--Alberta
dc.subject.lcshWork environment
dc.subject.lcshIndustrial relations--Research--Alberta
dc.subject.lcshQualitative research
dc.subject.lcshDissertations, Academic
dc.titleEquity in safety: how transportation safety professionals in Alberta’s trucking industry view their roles, their systems, and their industry
dc.typeThesis
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