This article focuses on individual effects of the transformation from communist to capitalist structures in the system of occupational health and safety (OHS). Despite basic similarities among the communist nations the systems of OHS differed immensely. The political changes during transformation additionally contributed to varying opportunities for the development of OHS systems. Changes affec...

Background and Objectives: Medical Errors and adverse events have recently turned into one of the predominant concerns of health-policy makers and health services providers. Promoting safety culture is fundamental to sustainable safety improvement in healthcare settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of training on nurses’ attitudes towards safety culture.   Methods: A ...

BACKGROUND Millions of workers are the victims of different kinds of accidents every year throughout the world. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between safety attitude and occurrence of the occupational accidents. METHODS This investigation was a cross-sectional study performed in a gas refinery in south of Iran in 2008. Sample size of this study was 176 people....

background: studies show that about 90% of accidents occur because of unsafe behavior and human errors. even if workers do not have the right knowledge, attitude and behavior toward safety measures in a safe workplace, all efforts for an accident-free workplace will be in vain. this study aims to determine the level of knowledge, attitude and behavior of workers toward occupational health and s...

background : the implementation of hse programs is so complicated in tunneling industry which is considered as one of the risky industries. this study aims at investigating the relationship between employees' safety attitudes and status of their belief in destiny, chance and perceived importance of hse programs in occurrence of occupational accidents. methods : this research is a cross-sectiona...

INTRODUCTION Patient safety is a major health care concern and is being included in an undergraduate curriculum as it plays a major role in lessening harm. Therefore, we aim to assess the attitude of pharmacy students toward patient safety. METHODS A cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire containing 21 items was conducted at the University of Gondar among fourth and fif...