Variations in Workplace Safety Climate Perceptions and Outcomes Across Healthcare Provider Positions

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-215
Author(s):  
Gwen E. McGhan ◽  
Natalie C. Ludlow ◽  
Cheryl Rathert ◽  
Deirdre McCaughey
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Provider ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Climate Perceptions

An Investigation of Healthcare Worker Perception of Their Workplace Safety and Incidence of Injury

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (5) ◽  
pp. 214-225
Author(s):  
Duaa Aljabri ◽  
Andrew Vaughn ◽  
Matthew Austin ◽  
Launia White ◽  
Zhuo Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Direct Patient Care ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Health Care Work ◽  
Work Units ◽  
Climate Perceptions

Background: Managing the safety climate in health care is a promising tool for improving employee and patient safety in the health care work environment. Gaps in the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of safety climate, as well as the evidence base for its practical application in health care remain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the number of work injuries occurring in health care work units and associated safety climate beliefs. Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted utilizing organizational staff survey data collected by a large medical hospital in the Midwest in 2015. Employees ( n = 32,327) were invited to identify safety climate perceptions via survey. Injuries, days restricted, and days absent were identified through the Hospital’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) log. Zero inflated negative binomial regressions used injuries as dependent variables and safety climate perceptions as independent variables. Findings: In all, 23,599 employees completed the survey (73% response rate) across 1,805 employee work units which were defined as groupings of employees reporting to a single supervisor. We found that there was an association between fewer injuries and health care workers indicating that they share responsibility for compliance with safety rules and procedures (relative risk [RR] = 0.98, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.98, 0.99]). Conclusion/Application to Practice: This study supports the use of a safety climate measure to assess working units’ perceptions of employee safety. A continued focus on the health and safety of employees who interact directly with patients is warranted, as well as employees who do not provide direct patient care.

Supervisor vs. Employee safety climate perceptions: Association with safety behavior and outcomes for lone workers

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueng-hsiang Huang ◽  
Dov Zohar ◽  
Michelle M. Robertson ◽  
Jin Lee ◽  
Jennifer R. Rineer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Employee Safety ◽  
Climate Perceptions

Organization Versus Group-Level Safety Climate Perceptions: Association With Safety Behavior and Outcome

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueng-Hsiang Huang ◽  
Dov Zohar ◽  
Michelle Robertson ◽  
Jin Lee ◽  
Jenn Rineer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Versus Group ◽  
Climate Perceptions

scholarly journals Measurement of the workplace safety climate among hospital female nurses in Japan

2015 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
Mayumi SAKITA ◽  
Yoshihiko YAMAZAKI ◽  
Taisuke TOGARI
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Workplace Safety ◽  
Female Nurses

Gender diversity and safety climate perceptions in schools and other youth-serving organisations

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 105334
Author(s):  
Douglas H Russell ◽  
Joel R Anderson ◽  
Damien W Riggs ◽  
Jacqueline Ullman ◽  
Daryl J Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Safety Climate ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Climate Perceptions

scholarly journals Safety Climate Perceptions in the Construction Industry of Saudi Arabia: The Current Situation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (18) ◽  
pp. 6717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Mosly ◽  
Anas A. Makki
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Safety Education ◽  
Safety Behavior ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Climate Perceptions ◽  
And Performance

Workers’ wellbeing and safety is important in the construction industry due to the high risk of accidents. Safety climate development is a positive initial step toward raising the safety levels of construction practitioners. This study aims at revealing the factors influencing safety climate perceptions in the construction industry of Saudi Arabia. A set of extracted factors from the literature was validated and used to design a comprehensive questionnaire survey. Data was collected from 401 personnel working on 3 large construction project sites in Saudi Arabia. Descriptive statistics and the crosstabulation algorithm, Kendall’s tau-b correlation test, were used to analyze the data. The study revealed a set of 13 factors influencing safety climate perceptions, which are: Supervision, guidance and inspection, appraisal of risks and hazards, social security and health insurance, workmate influences, management safety justice, management commitment to safety, education and training, communication, workers’ safety commitment, workers’ attitude toward health and safety, workers’ involvement, supportive environment, and competence. The results also indicate the significant and anticipated role of top management in safety climate at sites. Implications of this study include assisting construction industry stakeholders to better understand and enhance safety climate, which in turn will lead to improved safety behavior, culture, motivation, and performance.

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