scholarly journals Do medical interns feel prepared to work in the COVID-19 pandemic?

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (7) ◽  
pp. 973-978
Author(s):  
Maria Rosilene Cândido Moreira ◽  
Raul de Freitas Aquino ◽  
Larissa Lima Barros ◽  
Natália Campos Parente ◽  
Maria de Fátima Antero Sousa Machado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Conditions ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Early Conclusion ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Technical Preparation ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Healthy Work ◽  
Socioeconomic Profile

SUMMARY OBJECTIVE To learn about the perceptions of medical internship students about the early conclusion of the course and their preparation to act in the fight against COVID-19. METHODS An online questionnaire was applied with questions about the socioeconomic profile and the object of investigation. The data were analyzed using the Bioestat 5.0 software. RESULTS 111 students participated, most of whom (61.3%) were male, aged 20 to 25 years (80.2%), of Catholic religion (57.5%), and attending the 2nd year of internship (50.5%). A small portion (22.5%) reported being in total social isolation. The majority (57.5%) considered themselves unprepared to act in the fight against the pandemic, and 86.8% of the students believe that the early conclusion of the course will contribute to the fight against COVID-19 in the country. CONCLUSION This scenario points to the urgency of measures that provide, to recent graduates, timely technical preparation, safe work conditions, and emotional support even at the beginning of their professional career, leading them to competent, dignified and healthy work, during and after the pandemic.

Biographic Characteristics and Factors Perceived as Affecting Female and Male Careers in Academic Surgery: The Tenured Gender Battle to Make It to the Top

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Schwarz ◽  
Sonia Sippel ◽  
Andrew Entwistle ◽  
Anna Kathrin Hell ◽  
Sarah Koenig
Keyword(s):  
Career Guidance ◽  
Work Satisfaction ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Academic Surgery ◽  
Female Surgeons ◽  
High Degree

Purpose: Given the high attrition rate in the field of academic surgery, we aimed to characterise the professional and personal situations of female and male academic surgeons as well as to gather data on their respective perceptions of career advancement and work satisfaction. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey in Germany, inviting all identifiable academically highly qualified female surgeons and their male counterparts in a 1:2 ratio to participate. An anonymous 103-item online questionnaire was designed and the data collected between July and September 2014. Results: The questionnaire was sent to 93 female and 200 male surgeons, of whom 63 women (67.7%) and 70 men (35.0%) replied. The average age was 47.5 and 47.1 years, respectively. Respondents identified ‘high degree of expertise', ‘ambition', and ‘clarity of one's professional aims' as important factors affecting professional career development. Both groups felt ‘workload', ‘working hours/shifts', and ‘gender' to be a hindrance, the latter of significantly greater importance to female surgeons. The mean work satisfaction scores were high in both female (69.5%) and male (75.7%) surgeons. The predictors ‘support from superiors' (standardised β coefficient = 0.41) and ‘manual aptitude' (β = 0.41) contributed incrementally to the variance in ‘high degree of work satisfaction' (90-100%) observed for female surgeons. However, childcare provided by ‘kindergarten/crèche/after-school care' had the greatest negative predictive value (β = -1.33). Conclusions: Although there are many parallels, female faculty members experience the culture of academic surgery to some extent differently from their male counterparts, especially when impacted by parenthood and childcare. Faculty development programmes need to develop strategies to improve perceived equality in career opportunities by respecting individuals' requirements as well as offering gender-appropriate career guidance.

scholarly journals Prioritizing Safety Training for a More Personal Compliance of a Safe and Healthy Work Environment among Students and Staff of Higher Education Institutions of Selangor

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.30) ◽  
pp. 388
Author(s):  
Mokana Muthu Kumarasamy ◽  
Mazni Saad ◽  
Reeny Karlina Abdul Rauf ◽  
Noor Malinda Mohamed Mohan ◽  
Mohd Hanafi Azman Ong
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Safety Training ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Occupational Safety And Health ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Healthy Work ◽  
Positive Effect

Safety is an important element in an organization. A safe work space makes safety a priority throughout the organization. Improved safety will minimize job accidents, injuries, medical illnesses and death. Occupational safety and health (OSH) training that is provided by the top management of universities will create a safe and comfortable environment for both the staff and students. It also guarantees that every employee is safe in the workplace. Thus, the primary objective of this study is to investigate the effect of safety training towards personal compliance. A total of 234 questionnaires were distributed to 20 higher educational institutions in Selangor, Malaysia. A conclusion was reached once the data were analyzed using SPSS; that safety training (B = 0.364, t = 11.90, p <.01) significantly has a positive effect on Personal Compliance.  

scholarly journals Principles of Risk-Based Rock Engineering Design

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 1129-1143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johan Spross ◽  
Håkan Stille ◽  
Fredrik Johansson ◽  
Arild Palmstrøm
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Design Codes ◽  
Rock Engineering ◽  
Iso 31000 ◽  
Healthy Work ◽  
Rock Engineering Design ◽  
Generic Design ◽  
Practical Recommendations

Abstract In comparison with other types of construction, the development of rock engineering design codes has been slow. Codes must, however, be developed with relevant discipline-specific characteristics in mind. This paper, therefore, presents a generic design framework for rock engineering. The framework is based on the presumption that rock engineering design must be viewed as decision-making under uncertainty, which makes the design process subject to general risk management principles, as risk is defined as “effect of uncertainties on objectives” (ISO 31000). Thus, rock engineering design codes ultimately need to facilitate design processes that target the risk, to enable design of structures that not only are sufficiently safe and durable and cost-effectively constructed, but also imply safe and healthy work conditions during construction and an acceptably low environmental impact. The presented framework satisfies this fundamental requirement and the authors find codification of its principles to be rather straightforward, as long as the level of detail in the code is governed by a strict application of ISO’s general risk management principles. Further details on methods and practical recommendations can instead be supplemented in separate handbooks and application guidelines.

scholarly journals RISK PERCEPTION AMONG WORKERS WITH PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENTS IN PRE-HOSPITAL SETTINGS

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Salomão Goulart ◽  
Laurelize Pereira Rocha ◽  
Deciane Pintanela de Carvalho ◽  
Edison Luiz Devos Barlem ◽  
Jamila Geri Tomaschewski-Barlem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Occupational Risks ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Heavy Loads

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify the risk perception of workers with previous occupational accidents in Mobile Emergency Care Services. Method: this quantitative and analytical study with a cross-sectional design was conducted with 265 professionals working in pre-hospital settings from 57 cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. An online questionnaire addressed sociodemographic characteristics, previous occupational accidents and the workers’ occupational risk perceptions rated on a five-point Likert scale. The analysis included descriptive statistics, mean, standard deviation, median, and associations were verified using the Mann-Whitney test; the level of significance was established at p<0.05. Results: the occupational risks the workers more frequently reported were: exposure to blood (4.43); exposure to contaminated secretion/excretion (4.36); contact and handling of hygienization products (4.28); exposure to bacteria (4.25); lifting and transporting heavy loads (4.25); and exposure to viruses (4.23). A significant association was found between the risk perception of workers with previous occupational accidents and chemical (p=0.001), physical (p=0.006), ergonomic or psychological (p=0.000) risks, and accidents (p=0.000). Conclusion: association between the risk perception of workers who had previously experienced occupational accidents was significant, suggesting that workers may not identify or trivialize risks before they experience an accident. Therefore, actions are needed to encourage changes in behavior so that workers identify risks and prevent occupational accidents, such as adopting personal and collective protective equipment and improving the work conditions in pre-hospital settings.

scholarly journals Exploring the Role of Quality of Work Life in Building Learning Organization: Applied Study on the Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Yazan Emnawer Al Haraisa
Keyword(s):  
Learning Organization ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing ◽  
Quality Of Work Life ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Quality Of Work ◽  
Healthy Work

The pharmaceutical sector is one of the most important sectors at the level of countries because it has a big role in the development and sustain of other sectors. Therefore, the aim of this study examined the role of quality of work life in building learning organization in the (16) Jordanian Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. For the sample unit and analysis involved the employees selected randomly from the different areas in the target companies. In addition to, the researcher designed a questionnaire containing of (31) items to get the data required from respondents in order to attain study objectives. Moreover, the current study sought to explore the role of quality of work life in building learning organization in the Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing companies. The result of the current study found that the quality of work life have a positive impact on building learning organization in Jordanian Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and the highest impact for job satisfaction, then safety and healthy work conditions whereas the work environment is the lowest impact. Therefore, the current study recommends that the Jordanian Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies should focuses on quality of work life and their dimensions like job satisfaction, safety and healthy work conditions and work environment to build learning organization and achieve a benefits bundle or mutual interests to both employees and organizations. On the other hand, the current study applied on Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing companies’ .Therefore, there is a need to conduct more study in the future because the result of current studies limited and narrow. And also there is a need to take other dimensions of quality of work life like adequate and fair compensation and the social relevance of work life. And conduct further future studies on other sectors such as hotel, hospital and tourism. Moreover, conducting comparative studies with others sectors such as banks and clothes manufacturing companies.

scholarly journals DANGEROUS ACTIONS WHILE INSTALLING BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS AND MEANS TO DECREASE THEIR UNDESIRABLE INFLUENCE

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Titas Dėjus
Keyword(s):  
Safety Management ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Work Safety ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Technological Processes ◽  
Construction Companies ◽  
Safety Assurance ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Assurance Scheme

Construction business is quite specific, that is why work safety management in construction companies is very specific too. Work safety management in construction companies and sites is difficult and much more complicated than in companies of other businesses. Analysis of work safety management systems in construction companies can be very diverse. It depends on the work quality and technological processes in construction sites (from the preparation for construction work to different extra processes). Because of the specific features of building, like its dynamic or diversity, it is very difficult to ensure safe work conditions constructing using traditional methods and especially new methods, processes, and technologies. There is practically always a risk of having an accident at work (while installing reinforced concrete, wooden or metal constructions or doing other construction technological processes) because it is almost inconceivable to decrease its possibility to the least level. Work safety in this article is analyzed in the light of dangerous actions doing installation or other construction work. There is also made a survey of scientific literature about dangerous actions and of experience of Lithuanian Work Inspection at construction sites, and report on observation of exact construction sites picking out the most dangerous factors, the most important of which is labors’ falling down from height. In the article there are data (about influence of dangerous actions on construction process) analyzed and systemized. All of them were picked out during forensic examination of work safety Summarizing made researches the author advises to use such preventions: it is advisable to pay attention not to all possible dangerous factors, but only to three of them – falling down from height, objects falling down on labors, and injuries made by working mechanisms. The author advises to use work safety assurance scheme (3rd picture) and while preparing technological projects to use 3S principle (principle of three schemes).

Controlling Vibration and Noise Hazards to Insure Safe Work Conditions in Oil and Gas Plants

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Souil ◽  
J. Jacq ◽  
B. Crivelli ◽  
C. Deslot Marongiu ◽  
P. Vouagner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Work Conditions ◽  
Safe Work ◽  
Gas Plants

scholarly journals Professional Socialisation into Physiotherapy: The Workplace Realities

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Roe-Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Professional Socialization ◽  
Attrition Rate ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Workplace Experiences ◽  
Recent Graduates ◽  
Professional Socialisation

This paper illuminates the professional socialization process in a variety of physiotherapy workplaces through engagement with a range of facilities and participants (including new graduates, physiotherapy managers and experienced physiotherapists). It explores being and becoming a physiotherapist, and gives recognition to the importance of the workplace in the professional socialization process. It reports positive workplace experiences for recent graduates, and identifies links between these experiences, professional career structures, and the attrition rate from the profession. Just how well prepared are physiotherapists for the realities of the workplace? While this paper includes a theoretical model of professional socialization, the focus is on the narrative model, which is the lived experience of physiotherapists in the context of practice in the constantly changing healthcare workplace through globalisation and economic rationalization.

scholarly journals 3D VIEWPOINT OPTIMIZATION OF TOPOLOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS: APPLICATION TO 3D CADASTRE FOR VISUAL EASEMENT VALIDATION

2020 ◽  
Vol VI-4/W1-2020 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
R. Neuville ◽  
J. Pouliot ◽  
R. Billen
Keyword(s):  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
Topological Relationship ◽  
Topological Relationships ◽  
3D Cadastre ◽  
Geometric Objects ◽  
Visual Tasks ◽  
Validation Procedure ◽  
3D Scene ◽  
Task Efficiency

Abstract. Offering optimum 3D viewpoint to user can be attractive in relieving occlusion in 3D scene. This could be much relevant for the visualization of 3D cadastral systems since they constitute complex datasets including both physical and legal objects while users are operating a number of visual tasks that require precise outlook. However, 3D viewpoint usability has yet to be evaluated to demonstrate its relevance in accomplishing given end user’s visual tasks. Hence, in this research project, the focus is set on visual identification of 3D topological relationships (disjoint and overlap) as it is one of the main users’ requirements in 3D cadastre. To this end, this paper addresses this issue using a virtual 3D model of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan (Montreal city) in which property issues take place, especially regarding the easement validation procedure. Empirical tests have then been administrated in the form of interviews using an online questionnaire with university students who will specifically address such issues in their professional career. The results show that a 3D viewpoint that maximizes 3D disjoined or overlapped geometric objects’ view area within the viewport significantly outperforms traditional combined software points of view in visually identifying 3D topological relationship. This paper also suggests that user’s inexperience in 3D cadastre reduces visual task efficiency when visually identifying 3D topological relationship among overlapped geometric objects. Eventually, this study opens up new perspectives on 3D topological relationships modeling and visualization.

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