Main publications in English
Vision Zero
Zwetsloot, G. I.J.M., (2025). Vision Zero at Work: Strategies for Sustainable Excellence in Safety, Health and Wellbeing, Routledge / CRC Press, ISBN: 978- 1- 041- 02682- 2 (book -hardcover), ISBN: 978- 1- 003- 62122- 5 (e-boek). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003621225/vision-zero-work-gerard-zwetsloot
ISSA (2023). Improving Safety, Health and Wellbeing in Workplaces along Global Supply Chains by Vision Zero.
Authors: Perttula P., Zwetsloot G., Alanko T., Ruotsala R, Geneva: ISSA. Available via: https://visionzero.global/all-documents?title=&field_category_target_id=458&field_publication_date_value=
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Kines, P., (2022). Vision Zero in Workplaces. In: Edvardsson Björnberg, K, Belin, MÅ, Hansson, SO, Tingvall, C (eds) The Vision Zero Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23176-7_41-1.
Zwetsloot G.I.J.M., Leka, S.., Kines, P., Jain A., (2020). Vision zero: Developing proactive leading indicators for safety, health and wellbeing at work. Safety Science 130, 104890.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104890
ISSA - Zwetsloot G.I.J.M., Leka, S., Kines, P., Jain, A., (2020). Vison Zero - Proactive Leading Indicators – A Guide to measure and manage safety, health and wellbeing at work. Geneva: International Social Security Association (open access). Available via:
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Leka, S., Kines, P. (2017). Vision Zero: From accident prevention to the promotion of health, safety and wellbeing at work, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 15 (2), 88-100. https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2017.1308701
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Kines, P., Ruotsala, R., Drupsteen, L., Merivirta, M.L., Bezemer, R.A., (2017). The importance of commitment, communication, culture and learning for the implementation of the zero accident vision in 27 companies in Europe, Safety Science 96, 22-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2017.03.001 (open access).
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Kines, P., Wybo, J.L., Ruotsala, R., Drupsteen, L., Bezemer, R.A., (2017). Zero Accident Vision based strategies in organisations: Innovative perspectives, Safety Science 91, 260-268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2016.08.016
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Aaltonen, M., Wybo, J.L., Saari, J., Kines, P., Op De Beeck, R., (2013). The case for research into the zero accident vision, Safety Science 58, 41-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2013.01.026 Chosen as editor’s choice.
Safety and Prevention culture
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., de Bruin, Th., (2023). Surviving relatives as stakeholders for corporate social responsibility and as leaders for meaningful safety improvement - A case study from the Netherlands, Safety Science, 157, 105927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105927
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Schmitt-Howe, B., Nielsen, K.T. (2020). Success factors for OSH implementation – Opening the black box of OSH Realization, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2020.1786994
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Van Kampen, J., Steijn, W., Post, S., (2020). Ranking process safety cultures to improve risk based inspections using indicative safety culture assessments, Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries. 64, 104065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlp.2020.104065
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., (2019). Shared values for health, safety and well-being at work. In: Burke, R.J., Richardson, A.M., (Editors), Creating psychologically healthy workplaces, Chapter 4, pp. 91-111. Edward Elgar publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788113427.00011
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., (2014), Evidence of the benefits of a culture of prevention; In: From Risk to Vision Zero – Proceedings of the International Symposium on Culture of Prevention – Future Strategies, pp 30 – 35, FIOH, Helsinki.
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Steijger, N., (2014). Towards an Occupational Safety & Health Culture, OSH-WIKI paper, published online by EU OSHA - OSH WIKI.
http://oshwiki.eu/wiki/Towards_an_occupational_safety_and_health_culture
Other publications
Jain, A.., Zwetsloot., G,. Torres, L., (2024). Sustainability, Business Responsibility and Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing and the future of Work. Editorial. Safety Science 106463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2024.106463
Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Schmitt-Howe, B., Nielsen, K.T., (2020). Success factors for OSH implementation – Opening the black box of OSH Realization, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2020.1786994
Van Gulijk, et. al. (2020). White Paper: Safety in the Future. International Electro-technical Commission, Geneva. https://basecamp.iec.ch/downloads/white-paper/
Jain, A., Leka, S., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., (2018). Managing Health, Safety and Wellbeing, - Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability, Dordrecht: Springer Science. (The 8 chapters are also available individually). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1261-1
Bergh, L.I.V., Leka, S., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., (2018). Tailoring psychosocial risk assessment in the oil and gas industry by exploring specific and common psychosocial risks, Safety and Health at Work, 9 (1), 63-70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2017.05.001
Leka, S., Jain, A., Zwetsloot, G., Andreou, N., Hollis, D., (2016). Future challenges of occupational safety and health policy making in the UK, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, 14 (1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/14773996.2016.1231871
Bergh, L.I.V., Hinna, S., Leka, S., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., (2016). Developing and testing a method for auditing psychosocial risk management at the workplace, Safety Science, 88, 232-241.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2015.06.003
Van Scheppingen, A.R., Ten Have, C.J.M., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Kok, G., Van Mechelen, W., (2015). Determining organization-specific factors for developing health interventions in companies by a Delphi procedure: Organizational Mapping, Journal of Health Psychology 20 (12), 1509-1522.
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1359105313516030
Van Scheppingen, A.R., de Vroome, E.M.M., Ten Have, C.J.M., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Van Mechelen, W., (2014). 'Inducing a Health-Promoting Change Process within an organization: The effectiveness of a Large-Scale Intervention on Social Capital, Openness, and Autonomous Motivation Toward Health', Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine 56, (11), 1128-1136.
https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000000299
Bergh, L.I.V., Ringstad, A.J., Leka, S., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., (2014). Psychosocial risks and hydrocarbon leaks: An exploration of their relationship in the Norwegian oil and gas industry, Journal of Cleaner Production 84, pp 824-830.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.09.040
Schelvis, R.M.C., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Bos, E.H., Wiezer, N.M., (2014) Exploring teacher and school resilience as a new perspective to solve persistent problems in the educational sector - A case of The Netherlands. Teachers and Teaching, Theory and Practice 20 (5), 622-637. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2014.937962
Van Scheppingen, A.R., De Vroome, E.M.M., Ten Have, C.J.M., Zwetsloot, G.I.J.M., Wiezer, N.M., Van Mechelen, W., (2014). Motivations for health and its associations with lifestyle, work style, health, vitality, and employee performance, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 56, (5), p. 540-546. https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000000143