Assessing the Perception of Risk and Safety Climate of the Employees of Andishmandan Jonoob Company in 2020

Aims: Health, safety and environment is an integrated and convergence system and also a synergistic arrangement of human resources, facilities and equipment. This study aimed to determine the relationship of safety climate and perception of risk with the awareness level of HSE management system among oil refineries employees. Instrument & Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed at 2016 in all Kermanshah Oil Refinery employees. “Demographic characteristic”, “safety climate”, “perception of risk” and “awareness of the HSE management system” questionnaires were used for data collection. Data was analyzed in SPSS 22 statistical software using Pearson correlation and ANOVA tests. Findings: The average of total awareness of HSE was 20.85±4.82. The average of safety climate was 157.04±22.42. The average of perception of risk was 3.45±0.84. There was a significant relationship between awareness of HSE management system and safety climate (r=0.219; p=0.001), but there was no significant relationship between awareness of HSE management system and perception of risk (r=0.137; p=0.128). The relationship between perception of risk and safety climate was significant (r=0.651; p=0.001). Conclusion: Oil refinery's employees have the moderate awareness of HSE management system, high perception of risk and positive safety climate. By increasing the perception of risk and safety climate, the safety performance of the refinery staffs increase.

To examine the association between components of safety climate and psychosocial hazards with safe work behaviours and test the moderating effects of psychosocial hazards on the safety climate-safety performance relationships. The effects of a strong safety climate on safety performance are well cited, however, the conditions that have an impact on this relationship warrant attention. While the psychosocial hazards commonly reported by nurses are predictors of well-being and job attitudes, evidence suggests that these may also place boundaries on the effects of safety climate on safe work practices. This study used a cross-sectional design to collect data from 146 nurses. Participants were recruited through convenience sampling and snowball sampling methods in 2017. Nurses completed an online questionnaire and received a $5 e-gift card as compensation. SPSS v.23 and PROCESS v3.0 were used to analyse the data. A strong safety climate was positively associated with nurses' safety performance. While psychosocial hazards did not predict safety performance, they did moderate the safety climate-performance relationship. High levels of perceived stressors weakened the association between promoting two-way safety communication, the use and implementation of procedures to promote safe work practices and management's endorsement of health and safety with safe work performance. The positive effects of safety climate on nurses' safety performance are contingent on the levels of psychosocial hazards nurses experience. When aiming to improve safety performance among nurses, it is important for efforts to also focus on the psychosocial conditions of the work environment.

Explicit attention to patient safety during surgical training is needed to improve patient safety. A positive safety climate is associated with greater patient safety and is a requisite for safety teaching at the workplace. The Safety Climate Survey (SCS) measures perceptions of safety climate. This study aims to take a first step in validating the SCS for use among surgical residents in the Netherlands and to highlight opportunities for safety climate improvement through changes in surgical training in the Netherlands. It therefore assesses (1) if the SCS can be used to assess surgical residents' perceptions of the safety climate in Dutch teaching hospitals; and (2) how, according to SCS results, these residents perceive the safety climate in Dutch teaching hospitals. In a cross-sectional study conducted in February 2011, a Dutch translation of the SCS was administered to all general surgical residents in the Netherlands. Face validity and internal consistency were assessed, as were overall mean, means per item and significant differences in means between different groups of respondents. In total, 306 of 390 (78%) residents completed the questionnaire. The SCS showed good face validity and internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.87). Residents reported an overall mean of 3.95 (standard deviation 0.51) out of a maximum score of 5.00, and 52% reported an overall mean of 4.00 or higher. Women and residents working in university hospitals gave significantly lower scores. Significant differences were also found among hospitals and among regions. Majority of the items scored less than 4.00. The SCS is potentially useful to measure surgical residents' perceptions of the patient safety climate in Dutch teaching hospitals. There is considerable room for improvement of the patient safety climate. Surgical training should include better feedback, formal patient safety teaching sessions at the workplace and specific attention to patient safety during the introduction in a new hospital, and supervisors should encourage surgical residents to report any patient safety concern they may have.

Purpose- Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to examine the relationship between the safety climate perceptions of the people employed at the Bilecik high-speed train site and their intention to leave the job. Design/methodology/approach- The main body of the research consists of 185 people working at the high-speed train site in Bilecik. The sample consisted of 127 participants who answered the survey questions on 16-19 March 2021. Ethics committee approval was obtained for the questionnaire. The face-to-face questionnaire was composed of 3 parts; In the first part, there are questions about the socio-demographic characteristics of the people who participated in the survey, in the second part, the safety climate scale and in the last part, the turnover intention scale. Within the scope of the research, the Shapiro-Wilk normality test was applied to examine the distribution of the scores obtained from the safety climate and intention to leave scales by using the SPSS 25.0 statistical package program. According to the results, since the scores obtained from the scales did not have a normal distribution, non-parametric analysis techniques were used in the analysis of the data. Findings- According to the results of the research, the participants' turnover intention scores, the management's point of view and rules (r=-0.016; p>0.05), co-workers and safety tendencies (r=0.022; p>0.05) and safety climate scale total It is understood that there are statistically insignificant relationships between the scores (r=-0.001; p>0.05). Although there was no significant relationship between the participants' perceptions of safety climate and their intention to leave, the results showed that participants' perceptions of safety climate were high and their intention to leave their job was moderate. Significant differences between the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants in the first part of the questionnaire, their perception of the safety climate and their intention to leave the job are shared in the findings section. Discussion- According to the results, although no significant relationship was found between the perception of safety climate and intention to leave, organizational, work-related, employee-related and external factors are seen as antecedents of turnover intention. It would be beneficial to investigate the relationship between the perception of occupational safety climate, which is thought to be one of these antecedents, and the intention to leave the job, in different sectors and work areas.

IntroductionEngagement of junior doctors in patient safety initiatives is high on the national agenda, but there is a lack of studies evaluating patient safety attitudes among junior doctors.MethodsThe Junior Doctor–Patient...

BackgroundAuthentic leadership controls quality care and the safety of patients and healthcare professionals, especially nurses.AimThis study examined the influence of nurses’ authentic leadership on the safety climate.MethodsIn this predictive research,...

Investigating ethnic minorities' perceptions of safety climate in the construction industry

Perceptions of safety climate across construction personnel: Associations with injury rates

BackgroundOccupational Health and Safety (OHS) has become a growing public health concern worldwide. A considerable body of literature has been generated around the theme of safety climate perceptions and occupational hazards, as many researchers have examined perceptions of the occupational safety climate in relation to organizational hierarchy. But there is an urgent need to address safety problems associated with gender differences, especially in Saudi Arabia, where women have only recently begun to work in the industrial field. Therefore, this study aims to assess workers' perceptions of the safety climate and OHS hazards and identify gender differences among workers.MethodsA cross-sectional study was carried out, using the Nordic Occupational Safety Climate Questionnaire (NOSACQ-50) to assess seven dimensions of safety climate perception and a standardized structured questionnaire adapted from the National Institute of Occupational Health to assess occupational hazards.ResultsThe results indicated that respondents perceived only one dimension of their relevant occupational safety climates positively. “Peer safety communication, learning, and trust in co-workers”. Workers experienced a range of different occupational hazards in factories, with noise being the most common. There were significant differences (<0.05) between females and males in the areas of safety priority and risk non-acceptance. Women were more likely to experience ergonomic problems than their male counterparts.ConclusionThe present study concludes that industries need to comply with national and international OHS standards and rules, especially related to gender perspectives and hazards, as well as provide proper occupational health services in their factories.

This study investigates multilevel differences in safety climate (SC) perception dimensions between management and laborers on Taiwanese construction sites. With Taiwan’s high rate of construction site safety incidents, implementing successful safety strategies requires understanding differences in SC perceptions between management and laborers. This study used a structured SC questionnaire with responses from 74 managers and 261 laborers. The analysis of collected data includes (1) descriptive statistics comparing the selected dimensions; (2) Pearson correlation analysis examining relationships between SC perception dimensions; (3) t-test and one-way ANOVA to assess relationships between the respondent’s background and SC perception dimensions; and (4) Post-Tukey comparison analysis to compare the SC perception differences between management and laborers. The results indicate that management-level staff show a higher degree of SC perception than laborer-level staff. This level of SC perception varies between individual dimensions. The strongest convergence between the two groups is observed in the dimension of ‘workmate care of each other’, and the greatest divergence is found in ‘risk decision making’. Previous studies regarding SC perception in Taiwan specifically focus on construction workers and neglect the differences in perception between management and laborers. The outcomes of this study contribute to the understanding of multilevel SC perceptions, which can be used in the development of targeted strategies to improve SC on construction sites.

Safety performance of the construction industry in the US has been a concern among the industry practitioners and researchers. Despite all the efforts, the number of construction workplace fatalities has increased in the last decade. Beside loss of lives, the project stakeholders suffer greatly because of the financial burden imposed as a result of occupational injuries and accidents. In order to address the problem, recent studies have turned their attention to the more proactive approaches, such as assessing workers’ perceptions of safety. The present study focused on measuring workers’ perceptions of safety on construction projects with three distinct leading indicators such as safety climate, safety control, and risk perception. The link between workplace safety performance with the aforementioned indicators has been separately examined in existing studies. This study explored the interrelationships among the indicators. Correlation analyses between the variables demonstrated a positive correlation between workers’ perceptions of safety control and safety climate. As workers’ perceptions of safety climate depend on various factors, the safety programs can target to improve those individual factors and in turn improve the overall safety climate.

The safety climate of an agricultural workplace may be affected by several things, including the level of trust that workers have in their work group supervisor and organizational management. Safety climate has been used by previous safety researchers as a measure of worker perceptions of the relative importance of safety as compared with other operational goals. Trust has been linked to several positive safety outcomes, particularly in hazardous work environments, but has not been examined relative to safety climate in the perennially hazardous work environment of a commercial grain elevator. In this study, 177 workers at three Midwest grain elevator companies completed online surveys measuring their perceptions of trust and safety at two administrative levels: organizational management and work group supervisors. Positive and significant relationships were noted between trust and safety climate perceptions for organizational managers and for work group supervisors. Results from this research suggest that worker trust in organizational management and work group supervisors has a positive influence on the employees' perceptions of safety climate at the organizational and work group levels in an agricultural workplace.

Perceptions of clinical safety climate of the multicultural nursing workforce in Saudi Arabia: A cross-sectional survey

Background: Safety climate is the behavior and perception of health care providers in maintaining a safe environment. The study of safety climate in primary health care was limited. In Bahrain the concept of assessing safety climate were understudied, which drew attention to this important aspect in health care quality to be studied. Objective: The aim of the study was to evaluate the perception of safety climate practice in primary health care in Bahrain. Methods: This was a cross sectional observational study. A Safety-Tool “Primary Care-Safe Quest” questionnaire was distributed among 28 health centers in Bahrain, to 279 doctors. The questionnaire consists of 30 items that are grouped into five subscales: Workload, Communication, Leadership, Teamwork and Safety system &amp; Learning. Results: There was no significant difference in perception of safety climate in primary care doctors according to region (p=0.753), and work experience (p=0.301). Male doctors had higher perception of workload compared to the female doctors(p=0.039). There was no significant difference in perception in communication, leadership, teamwork, safety system and learning. Workload aspect showed low level of safety perception, while the other domains showed moderate level of safety perception. Conclusion: Overall the perception of safety climate among primary doctors in Bahrain was found to be moderate. Workload was an important area to be improved as it would lead to a better safety climate. Although the other domains were considered moderate there is still room for improvement. Keywords: Communication, Leadership, Perception, Primary Health Care, Workload

Safety climate, attitudes and risk perception in Norsk Hydro