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Introduction to Patient Safety and Improvement Knowledge
Published in Michael Ljungberg, Handbook of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for Physicists, 2022
A well-functioning safety culture is suggested to be Informed: People in the organization are knowledgeable about risk and safety issues;Reporting: Cultivating an atmosphere where people have confidence to report safety concerns;Learning: The organization is able to learn from its mistakes and make changes;Just: No one in the organization will be blamed on false grounds; andFlexible: The organization and the people in it are capable of adapting effectively to changing demands [11].
Safety culture
Published in Paul Bowie, Carl de Wet, Aneez Esmail, Philip Cachia, Safety and Improvement in Primary Care: The Essential Guide, 2020
The concept of safety culture is relatively new to healthcare and more research, development and evaluation work is required to provide a better understanding of what a positive safety culture entails and how this can be further validated, particularly in primary care settings. Importantly, safety culture may be too complex as a construct to determine its measureable relationship with key organisational outcomes,24–26 which in general practice terms could refer to, for example, rates of safety incidents from high-risk prescribing. In that case, no matter how much the prevailing safety culture matures within the context of a clinical setting where dealing with high levels of complexity and uncertainty is a constant, general practice may always be in state of ‘chronic unease’1,13 This is arguably the default position in many high-risk industries, despite the strong priority, leadership backing and resources often given to organisational safety. However, this level of support is still highly variable in healthcare, with the recent focus on the substandard patient care highlighted in the mid-Staffordshire scandal in the United Kingdom unfortunately illustrating that the concept and influence of safety culture are still poorly understood.19
Organizational Factors of Patient Safety and Handover in a General Hospital
Published in Teuku Tahlil, Hajjul Kamil, Asniar, Marthoenis, Challenges in Nursing Education and Research, 2020
Henki Adisa Putra, Endang Mutiawati R, Hajjul Kamil
The results showed that enabling factors were the most dominant influencing patient handover. Support from the head of the inpatient ward, open communication between the head of the ward and the implementing nurse and effective and efficient staff management with all the limitations of education, staffing status and years of service. This explains the leader’s actions in improving the patient safety culture in the inpatient ward can influence the successful implementation of the handover for the implementing nurse. Vogus et al. (2010) said that enabling factors are the actions of leaders who emphasize safety to bring up and resolve threats to safety based on the needs and culture of the hospital. The enabling factor in a patient safety culture is to choose and draw attention to the relevant safety aspects of the larger organizational culture and to create a context that allows people to translate these aspects into meaningful activities in the health care routine.
Assessment of safety culture in the fireworks industry
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2023
Safety culture provides proper direction to the workers in understanding workplace safety. Industries also promote good relationships, trust and contribution along with a safe culture among the workers. To promote a safe culture, the management must follow a certain combination of encouragement and strategies to initiate the workers of the whole organization. When the management is committed to the organization’s objectives, then it would view safety as an important aspect [21]. An organization’s safety culture is improved by effective training provided to the employees in safety activities. At any situation or cause, safety training for the employees must not stop and has to be conducted repeatedly whenever there is a safety alert. The capability to deal with various risks in the workplace can be created by the knowledge provided by safety training [22].
Investigation of multi-level safety culture in the Indian construction industry: a multi-level employees’ perception-based approach
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Kishor Bhagwat, Venkata Santosh Kumar Delhi
Basically, safety culture is defined as the attitudes, beliefs and perceptions shared by natural groups as defining norms and values, determining how they act and react to risks and risk control systems [15]. Uniformly, it is noticed that the importance of safety culture in the safety management system has increased and is appreciated because of its crucial role in safety performance improvement not only due to the decreased accident rate but also due to improved work methods, reduced absenteeism and improved quality, productivity, commitment, loyalty and work satisfaction [16,17]. However, poor safety culture leads to safety violations that result in construction injuries. Safety violations may be the intuition of heterogeneity in safety perceptions among employees’ varying levels [18]. Therefore, it is essential to consider the perception of employees working at different organization levels to present a clear picture of safety culture. However, some studies [19–21] have focused on employees working at one level only; possibly, such a single-level data sample may not be sufficient to represent a complete and accurate picture of safety culture. A few studies have explored multi-level employees’ perception about safety culture present in residential [22] and commercial [23] building construction projects in the states of Colorado and Nevada in the USA. Both studies revealed that management representatives reported a better safety climate (higher rating) than workers. However, there is an imminent need to further our understanding in this direction.
The safety programme as a tool of improvement for safety culture in the workplace: an exploratory follow-up study from the Danish offshore oil and gas sector
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2022
Hanna Barbara Rasmussen, Dewan Ahsan
The offshore industry is linked to higher risks of accidents than other onshore industries, mostly due to several external factors, such as weather conditions and the harsh maritime environment, as well as the risk for helicopter accidents, fires, explosions and blowouts [1–3]. After the world’s worst offshore oil disaster in the UK, the Piper Alpha in 1988, the offshore oil industry was forced to take effective measures to improve its working conditions and safety, which has fundamentally changed the safety regimes, especially in the North Sea [4]. Since the Piper Alpha disaster, there has been an intense focus on safety, risk reduction and accident prevention, both in the industry and in research in several areas. Workers’ risk perception on workplace safety (and the factors influencing the perception of risk) is one of the key focus areas of research in offshore health, safety and environment (HSE) management [5,6]. Besides risk perception, safety culture has been given a lot of attention both in research and from the oil and gas industry [7]. The results from this research show that changing safety culture can be challenging as there are several factors that have to be taken into account during the process of improving safety culture. According to Lund and Aarø [8], the best results in changing safety culture can be seen when interventions are conducted both on micro levels (individual attitudes and behaviour towards safety practices) and meso levels (the structure, culture and practice of local organizations).