Initially, the team wanted to use the research of scholar and his VSM questionnaire combined with a safety climate questionnaire, but dismissed it because it turned out to be quite difficult to locate comparable companies in the three EU countries willing to participate in a study with a primarily scientific objective.
As a result, no attempt will be made to compare national cultures per se.
Instead it was decided to conduct an exploratory study using three different data sources: interviews, Danish accident data and a survey at a Dutch company that operates throughout Europe and also has several branches in various countries there.
These research methods will be discussed in a later section.
A number of previous studies will be discussed briefly first.
2. Research into migrant workers and safety