BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Measurement and our understanding of safety culture are still evolving. The objectives of this study were to assess variation in safety and teamwork climate and in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting, and compare measurement of safety culture scales using two different instruments (Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) and Hospital Survey on Patient Safety C...

OBJECTIVES To assess the safety culture in an acute medical admissions unit (AMAU) of a teaching hospital in order to benchmark results against international data and guide a unit-based, integrated, risk management strategy. METHODS The safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ), a validated instrument for the measurement of safety culture was applied to an AMAU. All AMAU healthcare staff (n = 92) ...

Introduction: The research considers safety climate in a warehouse and wants to analyze the Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) role in respect to safety performance. Griffin and Neal's safety model was adopted and Leader-Member Exchange was inserted as moderator in the relationships between safety climate and proximal antecedents (motivation and knowledge) of safety performance constructs (compliance...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVE Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are a high-risk setting. The Safety Attitude Questionnaire (SAQ) is a widely used tool to measure safety culture. The aims of the study are to verify the psychometric properties of the Italian version of SAQ, to evaluate safety culture in the NICUs and to identify improvement interventions. METHOD A cross-sectional study was ...

in this paper, we introduce ergonomic system in assembly department of irankhodro as a case study, and then we measure its role in employees’ health and improving efficiency and productivity. to this end, we studied the effective factors including environmental, physical, safety, mental, psychological, and training. this research is descriptive – applicative in nature. data were collected throu...

Abstract Background Measuring the patient safety climate of a health service provides important information about status at given time. This study aimed to determine factors influencing in Intensive Care Units. Methods An analytical and cross-sectional conducted 2017 2018 two adult Units Brazilian Teaching Hospital. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire instrument was applied with multidisciplinar...

Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety medical devices is mandated for healthcare workers to reduce the risk of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV) from exposure to patients' blood. Research has shown that a strong safety climate may promote increased use of PPE. Therefore, the objective of this study was to exam...

Various studies have confirmed that the increasing quality of safety climate has a positive influence on reducing occurrence accidents. The is comprehensively affected in three domains: management, site, and enterprise. At company level, it challenging to manage all areas at high level due limited managerial resources. Therefore, necessary establish strategy improves step by step. For efficient...

Safety climate, as a subset ofsafety culture, refers to the perceptions and attitudes about safety as an integral part of the work environment. Several studies and surveys have attempted to measure aspects of culture or climate in healthcare organizations and assess the extent to which safety was a strategic priority. In the Indian context, while studies have focused on clinical parameters as a...