Search results for "Safety culture"
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1768 Safety culture and risk management in agriculture (sacurima)
2018
Introduction Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in Europe, measured by work-related injuries, diseases, disabilities and deaths. Statistics and studies show great differences in national injury and occupational disease rates, as well as approaches and support for prevention of these adverse outcomes. This EU-COST action explores reasons why agriculture lags behind other sectors, and why some countries have been more successful than others in reducing agricultural injuries and diseases. Methods Evaluation of health and safety programmes and approaches on the national level identification of knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and priorities among farmers regarding safety, health…
Testing the validity of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety culture model
2012
This paper takes the first steps to empirically validate the widely used model of safety culture of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), composed of five dimensions, further specified by 37 attributes. To do so, three independent and complementary studies are presented. First, 290 students serve to collect evidence about the face validity of the model. Second, 48 experts in organizational behavior judge its content validity. And third, 468 workers in a Spanish nuclear power plant help to reveal how closely the theoretical five-dimensional model can be replicated. Our findings suggest that several attributes of the model may not be related to their corresponding dimensions. Accordi…
Another look at safety climate and safety behavior: deepening the cognitive and social mediator mechanisms.
2012
WOS:000301081700053 (Nº de Acesso Web of Science) “Prémio Científico ISCTE-IUL 2013” In this study, safety climate literature and the theory of planned behavior were combined to explore the cognitive and social mechanisms that mediate the relationship between organizational safety climate and compliance and proactive safety behaviors. The sample consisted of 356 workers from a transportation organization. Using a multiple mediation design, the results revealed that proactive and compliance safety behaviors are explained by different patterns of combinations of individual and situational factors related to safety. On the one hand, the relationship between organizational safety climate and pr…
Spanish validation of the mindful organizing scale: A questionnaire for the assessment of collective mindfulness
2018
Abstract Introduction Mindful organizing (also known as collective mindfulness) is a team level construct that is said to underpin the principles of high-reliability organizations (HROs), as it has shown to lead to almost error-free performance. While mindful organizing research has proliferated in recent years, studies on how to measure mindful organizing are scarce. Vogus and Sutcliffe (2007) originally validated a nine-item “Mindful Organizing Scale” but few subsequent validation studies of this scale exist. The present study aimed to validate a Spanish version of the Mindful Organizing Scale. Method The sample included 47 teams (comprising of a total of 573 workers with an average team …
Desenvolupament i validació d'una metodologia per a l'avaluació de la cultura de seguretat per mitjà de l'observació de reunions de treball en una ce…
2010
L'objectiu d'aquest treball és descriure el desenvolupament i la validació d'una metodologia per a avaluar la cultura de seguretat per mitjà de l'observació de reunions de treball. Es va partir de la definició de cultura de seguretat més estesa dins el sector (International Atomic Energy Agency, 1991), les cinc dimensions que presenta i els atributs corresponents. La validesa d'aquesta metodologia es posà a prova en una central nuclear mitjançant l'observació d'un total de 36 reunions de treball de naturalesa molt diversa. Els resultats indiquen que l'observació de les reunions és un mètode útil per a l'avaluació de la cultura de seguretat. Comparada amb els mètodes tradicionals per a fer a…
Safety culture assessment in high reliability organizations: the use of questionnaires in the nuclear industry
2017
El objetivo principal de esta tesis es proporcionar una visión general de las formas actuales de entender, tratar, y evaluar la cultura de la seguridad (poniendo un énfasis particular en la industria nuclear y en la utilización de cuestionarios), y proporcionar orientación a los investigadores y profesionales sobre cómo capturar la cultura de seguridad de las centrales nucleares. Para ello, la tesis actual incluye los siguientes capítulos: CAPÍTULO I - Se presenta una breve introducción a la industria nuclear. Asimismo se presentan algunos de los más destacables pros y contras de la energía nuclear, y desafíos importantes a los que la industria nuclear se estado enfrentando en los últimos a…
Association of Nursing Practice Environment on reported adverse events in private management hospitals: A cross‐sectional study
2021
Aims and objectives To examine the relationships between nurses' perceptions of their practice environment, other working conditions and reported adverse events in two private management hospitals. Background Patient safety is influenced by knowledge, available resources and the context in which nursing care is provided. In this sense, it has been found that certain work environments (e.g., workload, nurse turnover level, patient-to-nurse ratio, nurse staffing, nurse manager ability) influence patient outcomes. The association between nursing practice environment and reported adverse events has not been explored in private management hospitals. Design A cross-sectional study. The STROBE was…
Leadership and employees’ perceived safety behaviours in a nuclear power plant: A structural equation model
2011
Leadership is considered an essential element in guaranteeing the safe running of organizations. The purpose of the present study is to find out how leader behaviours influence employees' safety behaviours (perceived safety behaviours) in the nuclear field. In an attempt to answer this question, the authors of this research have considered the way this influence is exercised, taking into consideration some important factors like safety culture and safety climate. To achieve this, the empowerment leadership model, based on a behavioural approach to leadership, was used. The sample was made up of 566 employees from a Spanish nuclear power plant. The results indicated that when safety culture …
Personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lifejacket wear in adults and children: A systematic literature review.
2018
© 2018 Peden et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Objective Drowning claims 7% of the global burden of injury-related deaths. Lifejackets are routinely recommended as a drowning prevention strategy; however, a review of related factors regarding lifejacket wear has not previously been investigated. Methods This systematic review examined literature published from inception to December 2016 in English and German languages. The personal, social, and environmental factors associated with lif…
The safety attitudes questionnaire for out-of-hours service in primary healthcare—Psychometric properties of the Croatian version
2020
The aim of the study was to assess the reliability and construct validity of the Croatian trans- lation of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire—Ambulatory version (SAQ-AV) in the out-of- hours (OOH) primary care setting. A cross-sectional observational study using anonymous web-survey was carried out targeting a convenience sample of 358 health professionals working in the Croatian OOH primary care service. The final sample consisted of 185 questionnaires (response rate 51.7%). Psychometric properties were assessed using exploratory hierarchical factor analysis with Schmid-Leiman rotation to bifactor solution, McDonald’s ω, and Cronbach’s α. Five group factors were identified: Organization cl…