This article aims to measure the application of occupational safety and health using Cooper's Reciprocal Safety Culture Model Confirmatory Factor Analysis method. The objective function this is find out aspects culture that have been implemented by companies. A questionnaire was circulated staff on company's production floor as part study. results recapitulation were then analyzed confirmatory ...

BACKGROUND There is little guidance available to healthcare practitioners about what tools they might use to assess the patient safety culture. OBJECTIVE To identify useful tools for assessing patient safety culture in primary care organizations in Europe; to identify those aspects of performance that should be assessed when investigating the relationship between safety culture and performanc...

BACKGROUND Patient safety is an essential element in the quality of healthcare, and a clear knowledge of its culture in healthcare organizations will lead to both improved healthcare and patient safety. The aim of this study was to assess the patient safety culture at Islamic Azad University hospitals in Tehran, Iran, in 2013. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on clinical and d...

• TeamStepps: http://teamstepps.ahrq.gov. • Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP): http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/cusp.htm. • Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/innovation_quality _patient_care. • Improving Patient and Worker Safety–Opportunities for Synergy, Collaboration and Innovation: http://www .jointcommission.org/improving_Patient_Worker_Safe...

After more than twenty years of research the construct of safety culture has acquired a prominent place in discussions on the way large companies deal with occupational safety. Academics, practitioners, managers and policy makers all follow this debate with both interest and Argus eyes. Recently, safety culture has been linked up with the maturity of the safety management system, with the ‘bett...

"Culture The Silent Meaning of Things" The Consequence of Culture in Everyday Working Life

W here once poor patient safety was deemed to be the result of individuals and technical inadequacy, ways of improving safety increasingly focus on the interaction of technology, human resources and organisations, together with the value systems or culture which lie behind them. In this issue of QSHC Pronovost et al describe the development of a scale from a tool which looked at cockpit managem...

Safety culture is broadly recognized as important for Air Traffic Management and various studies have addressed its characterization and assessment. Nevertheless, relations between safety culture and formal and informal organizational structures and processes are yet not well understood. We aim to improve the understanding of these relations by agent-based organizational modeling and thus provi...