To cite: Singer SJ, Tucker AL. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23: 789–800. THE ROAD TO WALKING AROUND The evidence is clear: a strong culture of safety is necessary to deliver reliably safe care. Safety culture encompasses a group’s shared values, assumptions, attitudes and patterns of behaviour regarding safety. 3 In healthcare organisations with weak safety culture, employees perceive the low priority ass...

Background: Staff retention is a significant issue for ambulance services across the globe. Exploratory research, although minimal, indicates that stress and burnout, in particular, influence attrition within paramedic profession. These need to be understood if their impact on addressed. Aims: To determine presence of contributory factors burnout service inform recommendations positive change. ...

The paper aims to elucidate the place and role, i.e., real power of functionaries lower-ranking units in Byzantine theme system. Their status bureaucratic aristocratic society was essentially determined by honorary dignities their commanding staff, which accompanied precisely defined powers army administration. Military or, more specifically, access military resources, were one main factors pro...

Objective: This review of current literature explores the strengths and limitations of applying tools of behavioral sciences to increase the participation and completion rate of training for lower-wage, frontline incumbent workers in ways that benefit both workers and sponsoring firms. Background: While behavioral economics may have deep roots in labor economics, its application in other fields...