introduction: disaster occurs almost daily in the world and increases the issue of it because of high volume of population, industrialization and acts of terrorism, my country is one of the most unexpected event areas of the world. health care systems encounter special challenges in disaster management, that they include triage and treatment a large number victims and also victims' information ...

This study assessed the relationship of age, poor perception of working condition, poor safety environment, poor management and supervision, risk-taking behavior, emotional instability, negative job involvement, job dissatisfaction, job stress, and poor safety performance of workers to occupational injuries. This case-control study was conducted on 202 male coal miners with at least one occupat...

The study’s objective was to assess the safety climate from the perspective of a health team from a hospital specialized in oncology. An observational sectional study, conducted with 66 health professionals, using the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. For analysis, Student’s t test and Sperman’s correlation (α=0.05) were used. The instrument’s general score was 70.28. The domain with best score w...

Background: Today, with the development of technology, the presence and role of human resources has been highlighted in industrial environments. Hence, the importance of safety culture is growing. Mining is the one of the most dangerous occupations. Therefore, this study was performed to determine the effect of health, safety, and environment management system (HSE-MS) on safety climate in one ...

Youths’ perceptions of their neighborhood are shaped by continued exposure to neighborhood influences. African-American boys in poor, urban contexts are more directly affected by their neighborhoods and are more likely to develop related difficulties such as victimization experiences, and exposure to violence. This study examines African-American boys’ perceptions of safety in their neighborhoo...

COTS have increasingly been used by industrial practice as a means of maintaining low development costs of a product, whilst offering significant capability upgrades. COTS are multi purpose products driven by commonly used functionality. However, being general purpose products raises certain challenges regarding their ability to be certified. Previously used (process-based) standards stipulated...

a bstra ct background: effective time management is considered important for managers for achieving the goals in an organization. head nurses can improve their efficiency and performance with effective use of time. there has always been a lot of disagreement in understanding time management behaviors of head nurses; therefore, the present study was conducted with an aim to compare the understan...

Objectives: Because of the high rates of accidents, the construction industry has become a hazardous industry in Iran and therefore paying more attention is required. This paper investigates safety management in construction companies for improving workers’ safety as one of the ergonomics aims. Methods: In order to survey the safety management in construction companies a questionnaire was pr...

Public transportation poses a higher risk of safety and security since there happen to be more passengers in one car. The problem becomes worse in developing countries, because of the lack of suitable and integrated approaches. The aim of this research is to explore the perception of safety and security problems on the part of those parties involved in the operation of public transportation. Th...

BACKGROUND Workplace safety has been a concern of workers and managers for decades. Measuring safety climate is crucial in improving safety performance. It is also a method of benchmarking safety perception. OBJECTIVE To develop and validate a psychometrics scale for measuring nurses' safety climate. METHODS Literature review, subject matter experts and nurse's judgment were used in items d...