For over 100 years, the US Forest Service (USFS) has developed initiatives to improve safety outcomes. Herein we discuss the engineered solutions used from 1910 through 1994, when the agency relied on physical science to address the hazards of wildland fire suppression. We then interpret safety initiatives of the subsequent 25 years, as the USFS incorporated social science perspectives both into its understanding of emergency fire incidents and its mitigation of vulnerabilities across all fields of work. Tracing the safety programs using a historical sociology approach, we identify, within the agency’s narrative, three recent developments in its organizational safety culture: cultural awareness, cultural management, and cultural reorganization. This article describes how the development of top-down safety initiatives are questioned and shaped by employees who actively influence the trajectory of a safety culture in the USFS.

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美国林务局组织安全文化的发展

100 多年来，美国林务局 (USFS) 制定了旨在改善安全结果的举措。在这里，我们讨论了从 1910 年到 1994 年使用的工程解决方案，当时该机构依靠物理科学来解决野外灭火的危害。然后，我们解释了随后 25 年的安全举措，因为 USFS 将社会科学观点纳入其对紧急火灾事件的理解以及缓解所有工作领域的脆弱性。使用历史社会学方法追踪安全计划，我们在该机构的叙述中确定了其组织安全文化的三个最新发展：文化意识、文化管理和文化重组。