Occupational Culture Research Articles

Police Responses to Rape in Metropolitan India

Much of the published research on police responses to rape is located in the West. This study conducted in-depth interviews with three adult victim-survivors and 15 police personnel to explore police responses to rape in the metropolitan city of Kolkata, India. Using an intersectional feminist framework, a reflexive thematic analysis indicated both sensitive and insensitive responses and showed that police responses were often based on discretion rather than being guided by the law. Police responses were also shaped by occupational culture, the socio-political environment, the police–criminal nexus and media coverage. The research sheds light on the unique cultural context of policing rape in metropolitan India. It adds to discussions regarding women’s police stations and changes in policing to address sexual violence.

Gender dynamics and sustainable practices: exploring food waste management among female chefs in the hospitality industry

This study explores how female chefs in professional kitchens manage food waste in their predominantly masculine occupational culture. By adopting the Process-Person-Context-Time (PPCT) model and applying the method of in-depth, semi-structured interviews (n = 20), the study reveals the complex interplay of personal, organisational, and contextual influences on how female chefs in Turkey and England manage food waste. The study highlights the significance of proximal processes, and organisational and occupational socialization in shaping food waste management practices of female chefs. The study underscores the importance of gender dynamics, organizational size, and occupational culture in these practices. The need for integrating resourcefulness training in preparation for future generations of chefs is highlighted. The findings enable a better understanding of how professional kitchens can be advanced towards the fulfilment of such sustainable development goals as gender equality and resource efficiency. The study emphasizes the need to consider a broader cultural context in future research on sustainability in tourism and hospitality. It suggests a comparative gender analysis to examine the unique challenges that female chefs encounter in food waste management.

Повышение надежности человеческого фактора как перспектива развития культуры безопасности в производственной деятельности энергетического комплекса ОАО «РЖД»

The criticality of improving the reliability of the human factor in the production safety culture of the JSC RZhD energy complex remains relevant. In order to resolve the issue, the analysis of various acceptable and applied psychological, managerial, and economic measures has been conducted. Measures to reduce the occupational injury rate and develop the occupational safety culture in JSC RZhD have been considered. Specific attention has been paid to the comprehensive approach that covers psychological, managerial, and economic measures. The rapid development of technologies and changing requirements in the sphere of occupational safety prioritize such aspects as professionalism, discipline, motivation for work, and compliance with instruction requirements. Specific methods, including visual information, organizational measures, improving working conditions, and training formats via improving training programs have been provided. Practical examples of the successful use of such measures in the production environment have been considered by using the example of the Power Supply Directorate of the Southeastern Railway where high-risk jobs remain specific. Various measures of encouragement and motivation for employees facilitate the significant improvement of working conditions and the reduction of injury rate. Additionally, the analysis of methods to raise employees’ awareness regarding the importance of compliance with safety rules through regular training and seminars as well as the implementation of a feedback system to ensure prompt identification and elimination of potential threats has been conducted. These measures demonstrate high efficiency and ensure further successful development of the company not only by facilitating the increase of occupational safety level and the reduction of injury rate indices but also by establishing a safety culture among employees, which ultimately affects the total production performance and reputation of JSC RZhD.

Implementation Of Occupational Health And Safety Culture In Maintaining Zero Accident Stability For Workers In Sugar Factories

Implementation Of Occupational Health And Safety Culture In Maintaining Zero Accident Stability For Workers In Sugar Factories

Exploring the needs of healthcare workers receiving psychological first aid during the COVID19 pandemic

BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCW; e.g., nurses, social workers) work in stressful conditions, a situation that has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. A review of the supportive role of Psychological first aid (PFA) suggested that it can protect HCW from psychological distress. Despite the growing interest of PFA among public health organizations, there is a dearth of literature on its potential impact for the psychological well-being of HCW and its implementation within organizations. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate whether PFA met the psychological needs of HCW in Montreal, Quebec. METHODS: A sample of 15 HCW who received PFA by a peer within their organization were recruited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Qualitative research using thematic analysis was conducted. RESULTS: Five themes were identified: 1) PFA satisfied participants’ psychosocial needs; 2) PFA provided by peers allowed participants to feel understood and supported; 3) High availability and multiple modalities facilitated PFA access; 4) Occupational and organizational cultures hindered PFA access; and 5) Recommendations to promote the use of the PFA service. CONCLUSION: Results describe four psychosocial needs met by the PFA intervention: to have resources/strategies, to be validated, to obtain a better understanding of the psychological reactions they were experiencing, and to be guided and supported in their difficulties at work. Overall, these findings illustrate how PFA goes beyond the reduction of distress symptoms in the aftermath of a potentially traumatic event. The relevance to further the assessment of PFA’s positive effects on psychological adaptation and/or recovery is also highlighted.

Glass ceiling in Nigeria’s banking sector: perspectives of senior male employees

PurposeThis study aims to examine senior male employees’ perspectives on the glass ceiling in the Nigerian banking sector.Design/methodology/approachThe data were collected qualitatively using interviews with 43 senior male employees in four Nigerian banks.FindingsThis study finds that senior male employees acknowledge the challenges their female counterparts face concerning promotion. Senior male employees’ views on the value of gender-diverse leadership underscore the illusion of a “level playing field” because of a gender-neutral performance policy and a family–friendly policy for women. Nonetheless, the study notes a divergence in senior male employees’ perspectives about the professional progression of female employees (based majorly on age and ethnicity). The study concludes that the organisational culture and leadership that underpin poor female career progression are embedded in and driven by the culture in the empirical context.Originality/valueThe examination of senior male employees’ perspectives on the glass ceiling in the Nigerian banking sector offers significant theoretical and practical contributions to the extant literature on gendered occupational segregation by providing unique insights into how patriarchal societal and occupational culture, as well as (limited) family–friendly policies for women, influence the configuration of men’s views of gendered occupational segregation in the Nigerian banking sector.

Occupation, risk culture, and risk perception: empirical evidence from China on COVID-19

Understanding the differences in risk perception among various groups is crucial for policy development, and the cultural theory of risk provides significant insights into these group variations. Utilising data from Mainland China during the COVID-19 pandemic, we constructed a structural model that encompasses occupational background, risk culture, and risk perception, examining the interplay between these elements. Our findings reveal that risk culture, as initially conceptualised by Mary Douglas, acts as a mediating factor between occupational roles and the differences in risk perception, offering a deeper understanding of how diverse risk perceptions are shaped across distinct demographic groups. This study underscores the importance of considering cultural factors in risk perception and provides valuable guidance for the development of targeted risk communication and intervention policies.

Female Police Officers’ Cultural Perceptions of the External Work Environment

Many scholars have detailed the exclusion of female police officers from the traditional masculine occupational culture that endorses a detached suspicion of the public as a result of the inherent dangers of the street. Relatively few studies have directly examined how female officers perceive or respond to facets of this external (community) working environment. The present study uses survey data from officers in a large, urban police department to test for gender differences in two aspects of the external environment that are core to police cultural attitudes: perceptions of danger and suspiciousness toward civilians. Findings show that female officers perceive more danger and are more suspicious of civilians than their male colleagues do, though the differences are modest in magnitude. Implications for research and policy are discussed.

К вопросу формирования культуры безопасности труда на этапе обучения использованию и учету выдачи средств индивидуальной защиты

The analysis of activities aiming to build occupational safety culture via the control over the life cycle of personal protective equipment at enterprises has been provided. The objective of the study is the analysis of problems and best practices of provision of enterprises with personal protective equipment and the further development of a demo simulator to create personal report cards and issue personal protective equipment. The features of control over the issuance of personal protective equipment have been detected as follows: The efficiency of control over personal protective equipment is determined by the timely implementation of digital services at the enterprise that, inter alia, reduce the stress associated with the work activities of occupational safety specialists; Improvement of competencies of occupational safety specialists as to the issuance of personal protective equipment increases the efficiency of its use by employees; Satisfaction of employees with the use of personal protective equipment is directly associated with their correct assignment reducing discomfort during the use; Selection of personal protective equipment by occupational safety specialists is based, inter alia, on the probability of hazards and hazardous events at the workplace; The high level of control over and use of personal protective equipment at the enterprise ensures building safety culture and motivation for safe work. A demo simulator has been developed as a solution to increase the level of efficiency of control over the issuance and use of personal protective equipment at the enterprise as a whole; a demo simulator that can be applied to train employees under the programs of use of personal protective equipment has been developed. The solution relies on the method of cases covering the list of personal protective equipment for occupations engaged in activities of a typical hazardous production facility based on the example of a boiler room; the list contains a set of test questions covering a wide range of features of personal protective equipment. The approbation of the developed approach during the training of future occupational safety specialists demonstrates its efficiency as it provides sufficient and competent information on personal protective equipment and the conditions for creating personal report cards to control the issuance of personal protection equipment that can be implemented as comprehensive software.

Labor safety improvement at heat and power supply facilities

Improving the occupational safety management system involves the development of recommendations for implementing modern methods for assessing occupational risks and the hazards of technological processes, using effective collective and individual protection tools, making decisions on the development of investment programs intended to improve conditions and labor protection at enterprises. The purpose of the study is to analyze accidents and injuries at heat and power supply facilities and develop measures to improve occupational safety management and reduce man-made risks. The procedure for selecting an optimal method for managing occupational safety, assessing professional risks, and the method of informing about working conditions using digital technologies were used. Measures aimed to manage occupational risks at heat and power supply facilities were developed. It was recommended to involve qualified specialists and psychologists in labor safety management, to implement digital technologies to calculate the level of occupational risks and inform workers about working conditions. Recommendations on occupational safety culture as a measure aimed to improve industrial safety were given. The proposed measures may improve safety and working conditions at heat and power supply facilities, improve social responsibility and safety culture, and simplify the procedure for informing workers about occupational risks.

The health and economic burden of dust pollution in the textile industry of Faisalabad, Pakistan

BackgroundExposure to dust in textile mills adversely affects workers’ health. We collected epidemiological data on textile workers suffering from respiratory diseases and assessed work absence associated with illnesses in Faisalabad, Pakistan.MethodsWe recruited 206 workers using multistage sampling from 11 spinning mills in Faisalabad, Pakistan. The data were collected using 2-week health diaries and face-to-face interviews. The data pertains to socio-demographics, occupational exposures, the state of the workers’ health, and other attributes. A theoretical framework of the health production function was used to estimate the relationship between cotton dust exposure and respiratory illnesses. We also estimated functional limitations (e.g., work absence) associated with dust exposure. STATA 12 was used to calculate descriptive statistics, an ordered probit for byssinosis, a probit model for chronic cough, and three complementary log-log models for blood phlegm, bronchitis, and asthma to measure dose–response functions. A Tobit model was used to measure the sickness absence function.ResultsWe found that cotton dust exposure causes a significant health burden to workers, such as cough (35%), bronchitis (17%), and different grades of byssinosis symptoms (22%). The regression analysis showed that smoking cigarettes and working in dusty sections were the main determinants of respiratory diseases. Dusty work sections also cause illness-related work absences. However, the probability of work absence decreases with the increased use of face masks.ConclusionThe study’s findings imply the significance of promoting occupational safety and health culture through training and awareness among workers or implementing the use of safety gadgets. Promulgating appropriate dust standards in textile mills is also a need of the hour.

Identifying measurable value dimensions of information technology occupational culture and its effect on job satisfaction: a mixed method grounded theory

Identifying measurable value dimensions of information technology occupational culture and its effect on job satisfaction: a mixed method grounded theory

Pandemi Koşulları Sonrasında İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği Kültürü

Practices regarding occupational health and safety in organizations do not go beyond a legal obligation, and the perspective regarding its adoption as a corporate culture is inadequate. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken on a role that can directly affect business applications and individual safety and risk prevention workplace practices. Ongoing awareness of precautions related to individual risk perception after the pandemic can also affect the emergence of an occupational health and safety culture against risks in organizations. The aim of this study is to examine how riskpreventive practices implemented by corporate management and individuals themselves in organizations under pandemic conditions will affect the occupational health and safety culture in the future. The scope of the study is to examine this relationship in organizations in the service sector, where face-to-face communication is particularly limited and is expected to be more affected than the production sector in the pandemic term. The quantitative research method was preferred in the study, which was conducted with a sample of 245 individuals determined by the convenience sampling method. Correlation and multiple linear regression were applied to diagnose the proposed relationships among variables after examining the data collected through scales and achieving reliability and validity tests through descriptive statistical analysis. According to the research findings, the policy dimension of culture and the strategy-oriented workplace safety and employee health dimension of culture are affected by workplace safety management practices during the pandemic period. The research has originality in terms of revealing which dimensions of the occupational health and safety culture were affected by the pandemic period and workplace safety management practices after the pandemic for service-sector enterprises in Turkey. Adopting occupational health and safety practices as a dimension of organizational culture beyond a legal obligation will ensure that occupational health and safety systems are designed and implemented effectively.

Integration of Occupational Health and Safety Culture into K-12 Curriculums Published by the Ministry of National Education: The Example of Türkiye

Integration of Occupational Health and Safety Culture into K-12 Curriculums Published by the Ministry of National Education: The Example of Türkiye

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY CULTURE AND LOW BACK PAIN, NECK PAIN AND WORK LIMITATIONS IN HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

Purpose: This study was carried out to investigate the relationship between occupational health and safety culture, low back pain, neck pain and work limitations in healthcare professionals. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 145 healthcare professionals working at Muş State Hospital between March 2022 and June 2022. The data was collected through Personal Information Form, Occupational Safety Culture Scale, Functional Low Back Pain Scale, Neck Bournemouth Questionnaire, and Work Limitations Questionnaire. Results: While a statistically positive correlation was found between the occupational safety culture scores of health workers and functional activities due to the reduction low back pain, a statistically negative correlation was determined between the occupational safety culture scores and neck pain and work limitation (p

‘[Trails] and tribulations’: exploring wash-out in cycling coach education

ABSTRACTThe mechanisms underlying occupational socialisation and wash-out following formal coach education are not well understood. This study explores eight cycling coaches (6 males, 2 females) navigating these challenges as they transition into their everyday coaching role. Using ethnographic interview data (collected over 18 months) and inspired by creative non-fiction (CNF) literary techniques, the accounts of three characters (Emily, Mark, and Yvette) offer rich insight into the workplace conditions that facilitate and inhibit wash-out: ignored and forgotten; the challenges of wearing two hats; and triumph on the trails. We discuss the challenges of becoming immersed and accepted into occupational cultures, the socialising force of observing other coaches, and the impact of (mis)aligned goals between the individual and organisation. This work has potential to inform the support offered to coaches following formal training.

DETERMINANTS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF OHS CULTURE AT RSIA BUNDA CIPUTAT, SOUTH TANGERANG CITY, IN 2022

The hospital is one of the workplaces that has a high risk of danger that can cause accidents or work-related illnesses. The application of OSH culture in hospitals is needed to minimize incidents of accidents and work-related illnesses by hospital standards or targets to achieve zero accidents. Purpose: The purpose of this research is to find out the determinants of implementing OSH culture at RSIA Bunda Ciputat in 2022. This quantitative observational study used an analytic survey with a cross-sectional approach. The sampling technique used a total sampling of 118 workers, which was carried out in December 2022 at RSIA Bunda Ciputat. Data analysis with logistic regression (=0.05). The application of OSH culture at RSIA Bunda Ciputat is not optimal; only 40.7% of respondents applied well, and 59.3% did not do well. Leadership and attitude simultaneously affect the application of OSH culture after being controlled by perception and action variables (p = 0.00). The most dominant factor in implementing OSH culture is leadership (p = 0.011, B = 1.999, OR = 3.001). There are 4 factors (leadership, attitude, perception, and action) that influence the application of OSH culture at RSIA Bunda Ciputat, and 2 factors, including perception and action, are confounding factors. Suggestion: One of the strategies needed to increase the application of an occupational health and safety culture in hospitals is to optimize the functions of the occupational health and safety committee, supervision, and training related to worker health and safety.

Differentiated career ecosystems: Toward understanding underrepresentation and ameliorating disparities in STEM

Prior work has identified the career ecosystem as a metaphor that represents the multilevel forces influencing individual careers, with the assumption that all individuals experience the ecosystem similarly. We explore how the career ecosystem might be differentiated for different groups of actors within it because of varying cultural and systemic forces. We focus on STEM careers as an exemplar to understand the contextual factors contributing to the low representation and high occupational turnover of women and other underrepresented groups. Based on the career ecosystem metaphor, we develop a multilevel model linking societal, organizational, and occupational cultures with individual career decision making and behavior in the STEM context and show how the resilience of the career ecosystem is different based on gender and racial/ethnic identity. Additionally, we propose ways to interrupt the ecosystem's feedback loop to create a more resilient STEM career ecosystem for women and members of racial and ethnic minoritized groups.

Evaluation of Workers’ Working Postures based on RULA and MCDM: An Application to a SME Producing Kitchenware in Indonesia

Currently, it is obvious that occupational health and safety culture in companies is on the rise including a focus on workers’ working postures. However, the implementation of these initiatives tends to be notably deficient, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This research aims to introduce a framework for evaluating workers’ working postures taking into account ergonomic factors and other influential factors. In this study, the developed evaluation model was applied to an SME producing kitchenware situated in Indonesia using rapid upper limb assessment (RULA), and the method was combined with multi criteria decision-making (MCDM). There were five criteria identified, namely RULA score (C1), the activity’s level of importance (C2), duration (C3), work station environmental condition (C4), and supportive equipment (C5). These five criteria were considered to evaluate five working postures on the production floor. The result indicated that based on the RULA score, five postures were categorized as high risk. Besides, by considering the criteria, working posture in assembly activity (posture 3) has the highest risk level which requires immediate corrective action. This research is applicable as the evaluation of work posture is assessed by considering ergonomic factors and the level of importance for each activity.

THE EFFECT OF MENTAL HEALTH AND WORK PERFORMANCE LEVEL OF HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES ON OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY CULTURE

In this study, it is aimed to determine the relationship between mental health and work performance levels of hospital employees and occupational health and safety culture. The study is cross-sectional, and was conducted in 2022 among employees of a university hospital. No sample selection was made in the study, and the study was conducted with 208 people who agreed to participate in the study. Data were collected using a socio-demographic questionnaire, Occupational Health and Safety Culture (OHSC) scale, Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS-21) and Work Performance Scale (WPS). Data were evaluated by ANOVA, correlation and linear regression analysis. Of the employees, 33.7% stated that their duration of work in the institution is less than 3 years, 84.6% of them received in-service training about OHSC, and 41.3% of them stated that their knowledge about OHSC is sufficient. In order of importance, the OHSC total score average is increased by decreasing the duration of work in the institution (β= -0.352), receiving in-service training at OHSC (β=0.209), increasing work performance (β=0.190) and working as medical staff (β=0.183) (p<0.05), while depression, anxiety, stress, age, gender, marital status, income level, health perception, and received OHS training were not found statistically significant (p>0.05). The OHS culture level of the hospital employees is medium, and the increase in work performance is to increase the OHSC level. No relationship was found between OSHC and mental status. Hospital administrations should implement policies that increase the OHS culture and work performance in the institution.