General Safety Management Research Articles

Conceptualization of Major Stakeholders in Emergency Management of Childcare Facilities

ABSTRACT This study aims to conceptualize the key stakeholders in emergency management of childcare facilities for applicable nations by referring to the Korean case. Qualitative content analysis is the main methodology used. Unique features are gathered from the Korean literature on childcare facilities and then summarized; however, universal principles from the English language literature on international childcare facilities are emphasized. The analysis of five major stakeholders in Korean childcare facilities, namely, governments, community personnel, parents, childcare providers, and children, shows that their current efforts are directed only at general safety management. Multi-hazard management or an integrated approach in terms of social work is thus provided as an alternative for not only Korea but also other nations.

캠퍼스 위험물질 특성을 고려한 합리적 관리방안 도출에 관한 연구

Recent progress in research in science and technology has been carried out in various combinatory and diverse ways, and the potential dangers associated with research activities are increasing along with research progress. The actual response to these dangers is not managed by laboratory safety law applied to laboratories with high current risk but it is actually managed by other laws and regulations. By doing so, it is urgently necessary to prepare an environment in which safe research activities can be conducted and to prepare rational management strategies for the prevention of safety hazards in laboratories of hazardous substances. Therefore, in this research, we selected two buildings that use the most harmful factors for two universities, 131 Analyzing the current situation and issues through on-site inspection surveys of harmful factors used in laboratories, Based on the situation of general safety management of domestic and foreign campuses, we suggested suggestions through discussion about the chemical substance management system of laboratories on campus in korea. In addition, the laboratory management system based on individual laws and regulations applied to campus laboratories has reached its limits, and laboratory workers who are applying this will have substantial institutional, administrative and conscious aspects We will try to explore 3P (People, Process, Property) capacity building measures to establish solutions. We intend to establish the standard of the site-centric management system to rationally lower the risk in handling harmful factors at university by incorporating the derived final conclusion into the actual research site.

Should healthcare providers do safety cases? Lessons from a cross-industry review of safety case practices

Healthcare organisations are often encouraged to learn from other industries in order to develop proactive and rigorous safety management practices. In the UK safety–critical industries safety cases have been used to provide justification that systems are acceptably safe. There has been growing interest in healthcare in the application of safety cases for medical devices and health information technology. However, the introduction of safety cases into general safety management and regulatory practices in healthcare is largely unexplored and unsupported. Should healthcare as an industry be encouraged to adopt safety cases more widely? This paper reviews safety case practices in six UK industries and identifies drivers and developments in the adoption of safety cases. The paper argues that safety cases might best be used in healthcare to provide an exposition of risk rather than as a regulatory tool to demonstrate acceptable levels of safety. Safety cases might support healthcare organisations in establishing proactive safety management practices. However, there has been criticism that safety cases practices have, at times, contributed to poor safety management and standards by prompting a “tick-box” and compliance-driven approach. These criticisms represent challenges for the adoption of safety cases in healthcare, where the level of maturity of safety management systems is arguably still lower than in traditional safety–critical industries. Healthcare stakeholders require access to education and guidance that takes into account the specifics of healthcare as an industry. Further research is required to provide evidence about the effectiveness of safety cases and the costs involved with the approach.

An investigation of professional drivers: Organizational safety climate, driver behaviours and performance

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among organizational safety climate, driver behaviours and performance for a total of 223 male Turkish professional drivers. The participants were asked to fill out the extended Driver Behaviour Questionnaire (i.e. errors, violations and positive behaviours), Driver Skills Inventory (i.e. safety skills and perceptual-motor skills), Transportation Companies' Climate Scale, which is newly and specially designed for the professional drivers for the first time, and a background information form. Results of the factor analyses conducted for Transportation Companies' Climate Scale yielded three factors, which were named as general safety management, specific practices and precautions and work and time pressure. After controlling for the effects of age and annual mileage, the results of hierarchical regression analyses revealed significant relationships between work and time pressure and frequencies of violations and errors. Hierarchical regression analyses also showed that general safety management was related to safety skills of professional drivers. Transportation companies' safety climate was not found to be related to positive driver behaviours or perceptual-motor skills. The results have both theoretical and practical implications by providing additional and new data to the related literature to be used for the future research and providing directions to the organizations in arrangement of safer work settings, respectively.

132 Application of a general safety management system in radiotherapy, from an organizational to a national level

132 Application of a general safety management system in radiotherapy, from an organizational to a national level