Safety Skills Research Articles

A Theoretical Knowledge of Interpersonal Safety Skills Is Not Related to Children’s Ability to Protect Themselves in Real-Life Situations

A Theoretical Knowledge of Interpersonal Safety Skills Is Not Related to Children’s Ability to Protect Themselves in Real-Life Situations

Advancing Diversity and Inclusivity in Ocean Sciences by Re-Envisioning Overlooked Barriers in Scientific Diving Training

Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) is an essential tool in some marine science fields. However, financial costs and racial disparities in swimming participation can be a barrier to entry for many aspiring marine scientists of color. Scientific diving programs could improve access to scientific diving training by offering training as part of their standard undergraduate curriculum and by maintaining a stock of scuba gear for use during courses. Similarly, the American Academy of Underwater Scientists (AAUS) could make training more accessible by re-envisioning components of the swim test and by building water safety skills into AAUS training—​all without compromising safety. Combined, these two actions would expand pathways for students of color to careers in marine science, adding much needed diversity to the field.

Safety as One of the Most Important Components of the Digital Competence System in Wartime Conditions

Objective. To determine the place of safety skills in the system of digital competences and the role of the university library in their formation among users. The acquisition of safety skills in working with information will allow users to level out and control the negative impact of external information factors. Among the factors that negatively affect a person, there is a colossal amount of information, consisting of actual, relevant, and useful information, as well as garbled, fake, manipulative, and destructive ones. Methods. Empirical methods have been used in the investigation. The practical experience and recommendations of international and national experts in the direction of the formation of safety skills in working with information have been analyzed. The level of their implementation by the library at this stage has been monitored. Result. It has been determined that for the qualitative and integral formation of users’ safety skills in working with information, it is necessary to expand the list of activities and topics in the direction of their popularization and training. The acquisition of safety basics of working with information will allow users to restore and maintain control over physical and psychological health. Conclusions. So, the ability to safely interact with information is one of the most important components of the digital competence system of users, which is especially important in wartime conditions. Teaching such competences will help users to realize, control, and level out the negative impact of external information factors, and that's why it can be considered an urgent task for libraries as institutions that are competent to work with information.

AN EXPLORATION OF TOURIST GUIDES' COMPETENCIES TO CREATE MEMORABLE TOURIST EXPERIENCES

Tourist guiding in South Africa is a sector of the tourism industry that is subject to regulation to acquire competence and skills to meet the guiding standards and to provide quality services to tourists. The research aims to explore the skill sets perceived by tourist guides as the most important in their professional practice to create a memorable tourist experience to ensure that skills perceived to be most important are considered during the guiding training course for present and future tourist guides to prepare them for both employment, long-life learning and enhance their performance to attain the highest level of customer satisfaction. This study made use of a descriptive quantitative research approach through an online survey research design to collect data. A non-random sample of 320 tourist guides was selected to participate in the study. Data from the online survey was coded into numerical representations and captured in Microsoft Excel. Descriptive statistics together with a confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyse and interpret the results. The results showed various skill sets perceived as the most important from the tourist guides' perspective, including honesty and reliability, ethical skills, time management, customer care skills, health and safety skills and communication skills.

Determination of Digital Density Efficiency by Data Envelopment Analysis: EU Member States

This study aims to determine the digital intensity levels, which are an indicator of the digital transformation performance of the countries. With this scope, the digital intensity efficiency levels of the European Union member countries were calculated by data envelopment analysis (DEA). The input-oriented Charnes Cooper and Rhodes (CCR-O) Model has been used to determine the digital intensity of the countries. The input criteria of the DEA model were obtained from the digital skills data in The Digital Economy and Society Index-2021 (DESI), and the output criteria were obtained from the digital intensity data of the same index. Digital content creation communication and collaboration, online information and communication, information and data literacy, problem-solving, and safety skills are input criteria for digital skills. Very low, low, high, and very high data were used as output criteria for digital intensity. According to the findings, Hungary, Spain, Slovakia, and Ireland are not at the full efficiency level. It is also stated in the study that input variables should be directed to reach the full efficiency level of the countries that are not at the full efficiency level. Accordingly, it was observed that Hungary, Spain, Ireland and Slovakia are not at the full productivity level. it can be said that these countries have digital skills but their digital intensity is not high. In this respect, it can be concluded that they do not make use of these skills sufficiently.

Examining critical project management skills for successful delivery of major maintenance projects: insights from the United Kingdom energy sector

PurposeMajor maintenance projects are often regarded as maintenance activities regardless of the projects' complexity and scale. Consequently, very scarce research attention has hitherto been paid to the critical skills required when undertaking these projects. More specifically, the body of relevant knowledge is deprived of a study focusing on maintenance projects within the energy sector. In view of this shortcoming, this research aims to examine the critical project management (PM) skills required to deliver major maintenance projects within the energy sector.Design/methodology/approachBased on a quantitative research strategy, this study addressed the knowledge gap through a cross-sectional survey of professionals involved in the delivery of major maintenance projects in the United Kingdom's (UK) energy sector. Data obtained were analyzed via descriptive (e.g. frequencies, mean and standard deviation [SD]) and inferential statistical analyses (One sample t-test and exploratory factor analysis (EFA)).FindingsOut of the 45 PM skills identified in the literature and examined by the respondents, the results obtained from the One sample t-test (based on p (1-tailed) = 0.05) showed that 37 were considered to be at least “important,” accounting for 80.4% of all the skills identified. EFA revealed a clustering of the PM skills items into seven components: “skills related to work scheduling and coordination”; “communication, risk, safety and stakeholder management skills”; “quality assurance skills”; “people management skills”; “skills related to forecasting scope and duration of outage”; “implementation of processes and time management skills” and “technical/engineering skills and experience pertaining to the outage and local site knowledge.”Originality/valueThis study has identified and contributed to the limited state-of-the-art skills project managers must possess to manage major maintenance projects in the energy sector successfully. The findings would be useful to organizations within the energy sector in ensuring that the organizations have suitable personnel in place to deliver major maintenance projects on the organizations' assets.

Behavioral Skills Training for Teaching Safety Skills to Mental Health Clinicians: Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Control Trial

Workplace violence is an increasingly significant topic, particularly for staff working in mental health settings. The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Canada's largest mental health hospital, considers workplace safety a high priority and consequently has mandated staff safety training. For clinical staff, key components of this training are self-protection and team-control skills, which are a last resort when an individual is at an imminent risk of harm to self or others and other interventions are ineffective (eg, verbal de-escalation). For the past 20 years, CAMH's training-as-usual (TAU) has been based on a 3D approach (description, demonstration, and doing), but without any competency-based assessment. Recent staff reports indicate that the acquisition and retention of these skills may be problematic and that staff are not always confident in their ability to effectively address workplace violence. The current literature lacks studies that evaluate how staff are trained to acquire these physical skills and consequently provides no recommendations or best practice guidelines. To address these gaps described by the staff and in the literature, we have used an evidence-based approach from the field of applied behavior analysis known as behavioral skills training (BST), which requires trainees to actively execute targeted skills through instruction, modeling, practice, and feedback loop. As part of this method, competency checklists of skills are used with direct observation to determine successful mastery. Our objectives are to evaluate the effectiveness of BST versus TAU in terms of staff confidence; their competence in self-protection and team-control physical skills; their level of mastery (predefined as 80% competence) in these skills; and their confidence, competency, and mastery at 1 month posttraining. We are using a pragmatic randomized controlled trial design. New staff registering for their mandatory safety training are randomly assigned to sessions which are, in turn, randomly assigned to either the BST or TAU conditions. Attendees are informed and consented into the study at the beginning of training. Differences between those consenting and those not consenting in terms of role and department are tracked to flag potential biases. This study was internally funded and commenced in January 2021 after receiving ethics approval. As of May 2022, data collection is complete; half of the baseline, posttraining, and 1-month videotapes have been rated, and three-fourths of the interrater reliability checks have been completed. The analysis is expected to begin in late summer 2022 with results submitted for publication by fall 2022. The findings from this study are expected to contribute to both the medical education literature as well as to the field of applied behavioral analysis where randomized controlled trial designs are rare. More practically, the results are also expected to inform the continuing development of our institutional staff safety training program. DERR1-10.2196/39672.

Efficiency of the Methods for Forming the Chemical Safety Competence of Future Doctors

The paper provides a theoretically substantiated scope, structure, criteria and indices of the chemical safety competence of future doctors in the course of studying bioorganic and biological chemistry. There is a motivation-value component (formedness of steady inner drives and understanding of the practical value of interpreting and applying biochemical aspects of chemical safety to the medical and preventative activities of future doctors), a cognitive component (knowing the substantive aspects – ‘Modern Chemical Safety Ideas’ and ‘Biochemical Aspects of Chemical Safety’) and an activity component (using the chemical safety knowledge, capabilities and skills) to be singled out in the structure of the chemical safety competence of future doctors. There are set requirements to the indices and levels (low, average, adequate, high) of the formedness of the motivation-value, cognitive and activity criteria of the chemical safety competence of future doctors in the course of studying bioorganic and biological chemistry. The article describes the methods of forming the competence of future doctors in chemical safety during the study of bioorganic and biological chemistry, suggests the use of modern teaching methods (designing, solving situational tasks, performing laboratory studies simulating the effects of harmful chemicals, testing), pedagogical methods ( interpretation of the concepts of biochemical trends of chemical safety, video lectures and methodical instructions are provided for independent study by students), work in groups and individual work.

Pengembangan Media Pemasaran, Manajemen Keselamatan Kesehatan Kerja dan Peningkatan Kewirausahaan pada Kelompok Pengrajin Batu Besar Kota Batam

The purpose of this PKM is to increase expertise and understanding in the field of product marketing and the use of marketing media, second, to improve occupational safety and health management skills and skills, three. To increase skills and skills through entrepreneurship assistance so as to increase the potential for business development, temporary results obtained from the implementation of community service programs. community (PKM) it can be concluded that this program has a positive impact on the economy and social groups of craftsmen.

Modelling and analysis of unsafe acts in coal mine gas explosion accidents based on network theory

Coal mine accident prevention is a key issue affecting the safety of coal production in China. From accident analysis, it has been found that the interaction of unsafe acts of coal miners is the main cause of catastrophic accidents, and that ignoring the interrelationship between behaviors may lead to missing hidden chains of incidents as well as to a gross underestimation of behavioral risk. Therefore, to solve the above problems, it is of significant practical importance to explore unsafe acts in accidents as a collection and to analyse their evolution and development trends. The purpose of this study is to analyse the interrelationships and potential behavior patterns among unsafe acts in coal mine gas explosion accidents from the perspective of network modelling and to propose a modelling method for the mine accident unsafe acts network (MAUAN). First, by mining the causes in 86 gas explosion accident reports, a MAUAN network composed of 95 unsafe-act nodes and 681 edges was determined. Second, by calculating the topology of the MAUAN, 3 key unsafe acts and 6 key behavior paths in the gas explosion accidents were determined. The research results show that 91% of unsafe acts in gas explosion accidents were violations. The lack of safety education and skills training for miners is the most influential unsafe act in gas explosion accidents, and the absence of operating procedures or prevention measures → failure to check gas concentration → risky operation without safety safeguards was the most critical link leading to the occurrence of gas accidents. Third, illegal mining practices have become another urgent problem today—in addition to gas accumulation and ignition source generation—with 83% of gas explosion accidents involving illegal mining. This study provides a reference for accident causation modelling and the identification of key causal factors from accident report data, and the results of the analysis provide a basis for decision making in coal mine accident prevention efforts to reduce future mining accidents.

Diabetes knowledge and related cultural safety knowledge: What do new graduate nurses know?

In New Zealand, Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is at epidemic proportions, with poor glycaemic control contributing to more patients with diabetes presenting to inpatient settings. These patients come from diverse cultural backgrounds, so their specific socioeconomic, psychosocial and social requirements are important to understand and address for the delivery of equitable and culturally appropriate diabetes care. Nurses have a central role in providing diabetes care, but they need sufficient diabetes knowledge and cultural safety skills to provide this care effectively. New graduate nurses are educated on the management of diabetes, however, there is no current research on how this education translates to the effective provision of appropriate care for inpatients with T2DM. The purpose of this study is twofold: to measure the diabetes management and related cultural safety knowledge of hospital-based new graduate nurses and to explore their experiences with providing diabetes care. Dewey’s pragmatic paradigm underpins this mixed methods research that will be conducted with new graduate nurses in a South Auckland Hospital. An adapted version of Daly et al.’s existing published telephone questionnaire (2019) will provide quantitative data and focus group interviews, the qualitative data. Findings will highlight nurses’ diabetes knowledge and diabetes-related cultural safety knowledge, and identify gaps that affect a nurse’s ability to tailor diabetes care to the patient’s cultural needs. Nurses who are educated and can give culturally appropriate care can help reduce the number of ethnic minorities presenting with diabetes complications improving the health users’ outcomes. The study’s findings will inform organisations about diabetes education needs and influence undergraduate and post-graduate nursing diabetes training programmes.

Educational Complex Geographical Practice in Student-Centered Learning

The article presents the problem of creating an optimal list of components of educational and professional programs in geography. It is noted that the Concept of student-centered learning provides for the mandatory involvement of students in the formation of educational programs, and therefore in the formation of the content of individual disciplines - a component of educational and professional programs.
 The purpose of the article is to determine the ways to optimize the process of forming students' competencies in the context of «soft skills» and «hard skills» based on the results of the study on the analysis and evaluation of the content and method of geographical practice. The study was conducted with students of the first (bachelor's) level of higher education (educational and professional program «Geography») at the Odesa I. I. Mechnikov National University. To analyze and evaluate the content of training, an educational complex geographical practice was chosen as a component of the educational and professional program «Geography». The respondents were students and graduates of 1980-2020. The survey questionnaire contained 12 questions, which were divided into 4 blocks: 1) age and sphere of employment of respondents; 2) received «hard skills»; 3) received social and life safety skills; 4) emotional assessment of the practice and recommendations for improving the practice program. The obtained results proved that the survey of applicants should serve as an additional source for monitoring and modernization of both the program of the discipline and the educational and professional program of the specialty as a whole.

Compulsory citizenship behavior and employees' contextual performance: Roles of perceived psychological safety and political skill

We explored whether compulsory citizenship behavior (CCB) influenced employees' contextual performance via their perception of psychological safety, and examined whether political skill moderated this path. Participants were dyads formed by 139 supervisors and 534 subordinates from businesses in Taiwan. The results reveal that CCB was negatively associated with contextual performance through the mediator of perceived psychological safety. However, there was no significant moderating effect of political skill. This study fills a gap in the literature on CCB. Our results indicate that managers of organizations should pay attention to CCB and to their employees' mental health when trying to encourage enhanced work performance.

The Role of Sex in Evaluating Other Male and Female Drivers’ Driving Skills and Behavior

Countries with wider gender gap might host sex-based stereotypical evaluations, which might be present from the early ages and persist. It might also hinder the stereotyped groups’ performance on the stereotyped field, such as driving (Granié and Papafava, 2011; Moè, Cadinu, & Maass, 2015; Steele & Aronson, 1995). Although the effect of sex and gender roles in self-evaluated driving skills and behaviors are studied, the possible effect of sex in evaluating other male and female drivers in their driving skills and behaviors was not a topic of interest in road safety studies. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate whether sex of the participants was a significant factor in evaluating other male and female drivers’ driving skills and behavior. 92 Female and 70 male drivers participated in the study. Participants were asked to fill forms of Driver Skill Inventory (DSI) and Driver Behavior Questionnaire (DBQ) to assess driving skills and behaviors of other male and female drivers. The results indicated significant differences between male and female participants in evaluations of other female drivers’ perceptual-motor skills, safety skills, and driving errors. In line with the literature, female drivers were endorsed for their safety skills, and male participants were endorsed for their perceptual motor skills. Similarly, female drivers received higher mean values for lapses and male drivers received higher mean values for errors, aggressive violations, and ordinary violations. Results are important in raising awareness regarding sex-based stereotypical evaluations of drivers, especially towards female drivers, in Turkey.

Shared e-bike riders’ psychology contribution to self-reported traffic accidents: a structural equation model approach with mediation analysis

With the rise of the transportation mode of shared electric bikes (shared e-bikes) in China, shared e-bike related accidents have gradually increased. To facilitate the design of safety policies, it is important to understand the factors that influence shared e-bike riders’ traffic accidents to facilitate intervention strategies. For this purpose, the structural equation model (SEM) with mediation analysis was applied by incorporating seven latent factors: traffic accidents, traffic violation behaviors, attitude toward safety responsibility, and attitude toward rule violations, risk perception, perceptive-motor skills, and safety skills. A questionnaire survey of a sample of 406 shared e-bike riders in China was conducted to obtain self-reported survey data. The results reveal that traffic violation behaviors and attitude toward safety responsibility had a statistically significant consequence on traffic accidents. Attitude toward rule violations, perceptive-motor skills, and safety skills can predict shared e-bike riders’ traffic accidents when the traffic violation behaviors are used as a mediator. Moreover, risk perception could also be used to predict shared e-bike riders’ traffic accidents when using attitudes toward safety responsibility or rule violations and traffic violation behaviors as a mediator. This paper lays a foundation for policymakers and traffic managers to develop effective intervention strategies and improve shared e-bike safety.

Toward the Adoption of Industry 4.0: The Skills of the Civil Engineering Workforce Relevant to the Fourth Industrial Revolution

There is no doubt that the pace of innovation is changing with the advent of new technologies related to the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0). The transition from the current to the future for these continuous changes in technology considerably changed the nature of jobs affecting people’s skills that are needed in the transformation to create an organization capable of continuous change. Therefore, this paper intends to assist industries in determining which skills are likely to become focal points in the adoption of Industry 4.0 to provide suitable suggestions for planning the next course of action on best practices of technology adoption for civil engineering industries. Since Industry 4.0 is reshaping the workforce’s skills, this study is conducted to fill this research gap by analyzing the skills of the civil engineering workforce relevant to the fourth industrial revolution, whereby the demand for special skills will drive the shift toward technology adoption. The research method administered is a qualitative method, in which the interview was based on a focused group discussion of nine members from Malaysia’s civil engineering industries. The findings of the data collected provide three main groups requiring different skills which are low-skilled workforce (technical skills, basic communication skills, safety skills team Working skills), semi-skilled workforce (machinery knowledge and skills, communication skills, leadership skills, and health and safety skills), and high-skilled workforce (engineering skills, organizational skills, decision-making skills, and problem-solving skills). Interestingly, the paper introduces emerging skills (digital drawing, instrumentation skills, risk management skills, remote worksites, and mobile access, environmental skills/schedule waste management skills, and autonomous robots skill) demanded for the adoption of Industry 4.0. The findings could help support and guide best practices of technology adoption for civil engineering industries. Future research might be helpful to further add skills for the sustainability of Industry 4.0

Training Home Safety Skills to Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Multilevel Mixed Study

ABSTRACT Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are known to experience emotional hypo/hypersensitivity, aside from exhibiting restricted and repetitive behaviors. These behaviors prevent them from perceiving and simultaneously responding to environmental stimuli, meaning that they may not notice potential hazards. Children with ASD are in the risk group for home accidents, being unaware of the hazards, and are therefore open to environmental risks. The aim of this study is to determine the needs of families that have children with ASD for home safety skills and to test the effectiveness of the training program prepared. Qualitative, quantitative, and quantitative levels were carried out sequentially in this study conducted with a multilevel mixed design. The findings of the qualitative and quantitative levels revealed that the families were content with taking measures regarding only home accidents, and they were insufficient in providing education. In the last level, the program was effective in the experimental group, and the awareness of the families increased in the interviews. The program, which also aims to prevent home accidents to which children with special needs are exposed, can be applied to children with and without developmental disability through instructive booklets, animations, and videos.

Communicate About Quality and Safety: Let's Think Outside the Box! Experience From a Cancer Center.

While the priority of caregivers in any health care establishment is patient care, they are often constrained by time and cannot fully devote themselves to projects aiming at improving the quality and safety of care. Although the culture of quality is widespread in health care establishments, the quality and safety department team must continue to improve existing procedures and develop new ones, in order to reinforce the take-home message that safety is of paramount importance. Since good communication is a key factor in the success of quality plans, the quality and safety team in our establishment is placing special emphasis on "out of the ordinary" activities that take professional carers out of their daily routines, arouse their curiosity, and increase their adherence to quality procedures. The issues addressed during these activities are based on the year-round continuous assessment of in-house procedures. Only those that have been deemed essential for safe care are focused upon. Most of the activities that are implemented have already been tried and tested in the fields of industry and aviation, and they all have a fun, collaborative, and creative component. Their impact and effect are assessed by carrying out the same assessments as those used at the beginning on the project. These innovative activities, which have received strong support from the staff, have had a positive effect on interdepartmental cooperation, on the adherence to the new methods presented, and on ensuring that information is made available to the greatest number of professionals. They have allowed the staff to acquire and consolidate new professional knowledge and have promoted good practice. This new program of activities has considerably improved the safety culture within our establishment. While the relationship between the skills of professionals and patient safety is clear to all, the message needs to be delivered in an original way that makes a lasting impression, in addition to using "standard" communication methods such as plenary meetings. The bottom line is to get as many professionals as possible fully adherent to the culture of quality, since quality is everyone's business and health care procedures are constantly evolving. Based on our experience, we provide a set of activities that can be improved and adapted according to the setting in which it is used.

Immersive Disaster Training Schema Based on Team Role-Playing

The prevalence of inevitable natural and social disasters is increasing at an alarming rate. With the proliferation of media and Internet technologies, there is a growing awareness of the importance of disaster training. The paper aims to combine the techniques of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) and team-based role-playing to demonstrate a comprehensive disaster training schema to help participants practice safety skills and learn proper decision-making skills in the face of disasters. A VR dome and cylinder combined multidisplay system iwDome was used to immerse participants and provide a view of the overall training; the role of each team was presented through the appropriate Head Mounted Display (HMD) and connected desktop. Rather than just being passive spectators or game players, the participants received puzzles in the virtual scenario that required intra-team and inter-team collaboration to be solved. The scenarios applicable to the system were not restricted to a specific type of disaster, but could be customized, revealing significant application prospects. To test the motivation for improvement, a quality assessment and user experience survey were conducted. The results indicate that participants were more engaged through cooperation in the virtual training environment and could achieve greater learning gains. The correlation of age to user studies was also confirmed. The enhanced enthusiasm of participants for what is relatively standard disaster management demonstrates the promise of using team role-playing-based VR training for vital, but otherwise tedious disaster safety training.

화학사고 대응역량 측정연구

In order to establish appropriate measures for chemical accidents according to the use of various and wide-ranging chemicals and social structural changes, it is necessary to measure and accurately diagnose chemical accidents. Responders at the scene of an accident must secure competency suitable for their roles in preparation for the occurrence of an accident, as they perform response activities according to their determined roles and tasks. The purpose of this study is to measure the competency of workers in chemical companies to respond to chemical accidents. First, the concept of chemical accident response competency was presented. In response to chemical accidents, each individual's safety knowledge, safety skill, and safety ability were defined as chemical accident response competency, and among the types of chemical accidents, methods were suggested based on leakage, explosion, and fire accidents. Second, a pilot survey of chemical accident response competency of chemical company workers was conducted and verified using chemical accident response competency measurement tools. Third, the measurement results of the pilot survey of chemical accident response competency were analyzed and implications were derived. The chemical accident response competency survey was conducted using the chemical accident response competency measurement tool in the appendix, and a total of 233 responses were received with 115 chemical workers, 65 general public officials, 27 government employees, and 26 public institutions. In the reliability verification of the survey, safety knowledge was 0.960, safety technology 0.942, and safety ability was 0.956, and in the reliability analysis of the total number of items, Cronbach's alpha value was 0.979, which was very high. In the analysis of the results of the chemical accident response capacity measurement tool survey, the average was 29.84, which was below the average level, 37.09 for each public official, 30.66 for chemical workers, 26.29 for the general public and 27.65 for public institutions. Overall, safety knowledge and safety technology are measured at an average normal level, but safety abilities are measured at an insufficient level in the rest of the group except for public officials, and should be improved above the normal level through safety education and training. It is necessary to measure and diagnose individual-level chemical accident response competency to provide basic information and data to strengthen safety management activities in chemical companies, but this study is of great significance in that it conducted a survey through the measurement model. Continuous research is needed every year to improve the ability to respond to chemical accidents. As developed and measured in this study in the future, a more systematic and in-depth study on individual-level chemical accident response capabilities is needed through the development of questionnaire items suitable for each group.