Organizational safety culture perceptions of healthcare workers in Ghana: A cross-sectional interview study.

Abstract

Evidence shows that routine occupational safety and health (OSH) training is critical for maintaining good safety culture at healthcare facilities. However, our understanding of how healthcare facility type and routine OSH training interactively influence the number of reported organizational safety culture perceptions is limited. This study assesses the interactive effect of healthcare facility type and OSH training on the number of reported organizational safety culture perceptions of healthcare workers in Ghana, secondly it evaluates how the relationship was attenuated when theoretically relevant factors (compositional and contextual) were considered, and lastly examines the magnitude and order of association between the predictors and the number of reported organizational safety culture perceptions. Cross-sectional interview study. The researchers interviewed 500 healthcare workers in seventeen healthcare facilities in the Central region of Ghana. Negative binomial regression models were fitted to cross-sectional survey data on 500 healthcare workers in Ghana. Healthcare workers who work in healthcare centers (24%, P<0.05) and hospitals (23%, P<0.05) where routine OSH training was conducted were more likely to report good organizational safety culture perceptions compared with their counterparts who work at healthcare centers where no routine OSH training was conducted. Individuals who were above 39 years (23%, P<0.05) were more likely to report good organizational safety culture perceptions compared with their counterparts in the 20-29-year category. Female healthcare workers (11%, P<0.05) were more likely to report good organizational safety culture perceptions compared with their male counterparts. These findings provide valuable information for policymakers and stakeholders in the healthcare sector to develop interventions necessary for improving safety culture at healthcare facilities.