INTRODUCTION Safety culture is considered as an important factor in improving patient safety. Therefore, identifying individual and organizational factors affecting safety culture is crucial. This study was carried out to determine individual and organizational factors associated with nurses' perception of patient safety culture. METHODS The present descriptive study included 940 nurses worki...

BACKGROUND adverse events in maternity care are relatively common but often avoidable. International patient safety strategies advocate measuring safety culture as a strategy to improve patient safety. Evidence suggests it is necessary to fully understand the safety culture of an organisation to make improvements to patient safety. AIM this paper reports a case study examining the safety cult...

Background: healthcare organizations is being increasingly used. The aim of this study was to clarify PSC statusin Iranian hospitals using a meta-analysis method.Nowadays, for quality improvement, measuring patient safety culture (PSC) inMethodsSID and IranMedex using the search terms including patient safety, patient safety culture, patientsafety climate and combined with hospital (such as “ho...

PROBLEM Safety culture relates to injuries and safety incidents in organizations, but is difficult to asses and measure. We describe a preliminary test of assessing an organization's safety culture by examining employee interpretations of organizational safety artifacts (safety signs). METHOD We collected data in three organizations using a new safety culture assessment tool that we label the...

Örgüt kültürünün bir parçası olan güvenlik kültürünü etkileyen birçok parametre vardır. Bunların başında çalışanların değerleri, inançları, varsayımları gibi hususlar gelmektedir. Güvenlik kültürü oluşturmada ve geliştirmede çalışan davranışlarını analiz etmek güvensiz davranışlar üzerinde çalışmak gerekecektir. Tam bu noktada koçluk devreye girmektedir. Bir işletmede kültürüne katkı sağlamak i...

Chemistry practitioners, particularly in educational settings, often associate building strong safety cultures with compliance or regulatory requirements around laboratory glassware, equipment, flammable and incompatible materials, signage, container labels, data sheets. Other fields of science also emphasize biohazardous animal handling, human subject, ergonomics. However, little attention the...

INTRODUCTION Workplace attitude, beliefs, and culture may impact the safety of patient care. This study characterized perceptions of safety culture in a nationwide sample of emergency medical services (EMS) agencies. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey involving 61 advanced life support EMS agencies in North America. We administered a modified version of the Safety Attitudes Questio...

Over the past several years, organizations in high-risk industries such as nuclear power and aviation have become increasingly aware of the role that safety culture plays in shaping reliable and safe operations. As a result, safety professionals working in other industries and transportation modalities such as manufacturing, construction, chemical and petroleum processing, and traffic safety ha...