BACKGROUND Safety attitude surveys have been widely conducted in various disciplines, but not among respiratory therapists (RTs), to assess clinician's awareness of patient safety. We conducted a nationwide survey in Taiwan to assess RTs' safety attitudes in several hospital settings. METHODS We adapted the Safety Attitude Questionnaire for RTs, and, via the RTs' union, invited all Taiwan RTs...

background: this study investigated the relationship between people's attitudes towards the safety culture and comparing its perceptions among three levels of refinery personnel: top management, supervisory staff and frontline workers by conducting safety culture survey. methods: a questionnaire comprising general information and 59-safety attitude statement were distributed among 237 workers, ...

INTRODUCTION Many internal and external risk factors in health care organizations make safety important and it has caused the management to consider safety in their mission statement. One of the most important tools is to establish the appropriate organizational structure and safety culture. THE GOAL The goal of this research is to inform managers and staff about current safety culture status...

This paper studies safety attitudes, their relationship with safety training behaviour, and generalised self-efficacy. From a sociotechnical perspective, training programs might be used as a mechanism for enhancing attitudes, especially to improve safety and occupational health. Also, self-efficacy allows to enhance training effectiveness. The aim of this paper is to validate a safety attitude ...

Textile dye workers are subject to occupational hazards on a daily basis due to exposure to precarious conditions in the workplace. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and safety practices and its determinants among textile dye workers in Sokoto metropolis, Nigeria. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted among 200 textile dye workers and the respondents were select...

OBJECTIVES To measure and establish a baseline assessment of the patient safety culture in the Palestinian hospitals. DESIGN A cross-sectional descriptive study using the Arabic version of the Safety Attitude Questionnaire (Short Form 2006). PARTICIPANTS A total of 339 nurses and physicians returned the questionnaire out of 370 achieving a response rate of 91.6%. SETTING Four public gener...

PROBLEM Safety in the construction industry is a major issue in Hong Kong, representing about 46% of all occupational injuries in 1998. This study explored linear and curvilinear relations between age and safety performance (accident rates and occupational injuries), as well as safety attitudes, in construction workers in Hong Kong. METHOD A Chinese version of the Safety Attitude Questionnair...

This study aims to facilitate a new understanding on employees’ attitude towards compliance with the requirements of their information security policy (ISPs) through the lens of escalation. Escalation presents a situation in which employees must decide whether to persist in or withdraw from a non-performing task. Drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and Agency Theory, our model delin...