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Showing 1 to 20 of 96 for “"Safety Culture"”.
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Safety Culture Monitoring: A Management Approach for Assessing Nuclear Safety Culture Health Performance Utilizing Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis
… of performance in a nuclear organization is its safety culture. Nuclear safety culture is for an organization what character and personality is for an individual: a feature that is made visible primarily through behaviors and espoused values. Nuclear safety culture is undergoing constant change. …
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Safety Culture in Sea and Aviation Transport
… thesis investigates sea and aviation transport safety culture, with a focus on perceptions and attitudes. A safety culture reflects the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and values that individuals share in relation to safety. Safety culture is often identified as being essential to an …
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Leader-Member Relationships and Patient Safety Culture
Patient safety culture has been a national objective for years. Many different interventions have been explored in hopes of improvement, but reported statistics suggest that this issue has yet to be solved. The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between nurse leaders and their …
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Safety Culture: An Assessment of a Collegiate Aviation Program
An assessment of the safety culture at an accredited four year collegiate aviation program was conducted. The Collegiate Aviation Program Safety Culture Assessment Survey (CAPSCAS) was used. Participants were drawn from flight students and instructors in the program. The survey captured the …
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Safety On A Drilling Rig: Is It Safety Culture?
… Numerous studies and research projects on worker safety on shore (factories) have been completed through the years. Studies and research on offshore workers has not been as active, particularly on drilling rigs working in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico as other locations. While rig safety has improved …
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Understanding and Changing the Patient Safety Culture in Canadian Hospitals
Patient safety experts identify changes in culture as critical to creating safer care (Flin, 2007; Leape, 1994; Reason, 1997; Vincent, Taylor-Adams & Stanhope, 1998). Yet there is limited understanding of how to best study, evaluate and make changes to patient safety culture. The literature on …
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Leaders' contribution to safety culture and empowering them to succeed
Safety culture is an accepted concept which involves shared values and beliefs relating to health and safety within an organisation. Due to their position of influence within organisations, leaders are widely recognised as a crucial cog in the system in influencing the type of safety culture …
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A paradigm shift in organisational safety culture evaluation and training
… traditional approaches towards understanding the safety culture of an organisation operating in a high risk environment and to identify an effective technique to educate corporate management in how to measure and evaluate the underlying safety culture of their own organisations. The results of the …
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Patient safety culture in Irish healthcare: a mixed-methods investigation
… cause of preventable harm worldwide. Patient safety culture has been described as the way in which members of a healthcare organisation think about and prioritise safety. The patient safety culture in a healthcare organisation can be affected by numerous factors including staff perceptions of …
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The Effects of Safety Culture and Ethical Leadership on Safety Performance
<p>This dissertation investigated the effects of safety culture and ethical leadership on safety performance in Fractional jet pilots in the United States. The primary objective was to develop a well-fitted model linking these constructs. A composite survey instrument was developed from instruments …
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Patient Safety Culture and Management Activities Perceived by Geriatric Hospital Nurses
… AHRQ(2004)에서 개발한 Hospital survey on patient safety culture(HSOPSC) 설문지를 김정은(2004)이 한글로 번안하여 사용한 44문항을 사용하였고, 환자안전관리 활동은 이금옥(2009)이 개발한 도구를 이유정(2011)이 수정 보완한 36문항을 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS window 18.0 프로그램을 이용하여 t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe의 사후검정, Pearson’s correlation coefficient로 사용하여 분석하였다. 본 …
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Safety culture in the nuclear power industry : attributes for regulatory assessment
Safety culture refers to the attitudes, behaviors, and conditions that affect safety performance and often arises in discussions following incidents at nuclear power plants. As it involves both operational and management issues, safety culture is a sensitive topic for regulators whose role is to …
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Development and evaluation of a safety culture survey for occupational safety
… at four industrial plants, and evaluation of the Safety Culture Survey (SCS). The SCS consists of three scales: the Actively Caring Scale (ACS), the Safety Perception Scale (SPS), and the Risk Propensity Scale (RPS). The ACS measures person factors related to one's propensity to actively care for …
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The effects of safety culture on project performance in high risk industries
… Nuclear Power Station in South Africa to enhance safety and to contribute to the continuity of power supply in the country. These projects are undertaken in an industry that is regarded as a high risk due to the potential consequence of a nuclear accident. Focus is thus placed on safety culture to …
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Assessing safety culture of professional pilots within selected South African based aviation organisations
… within the industry especially with regards to safety culture. Safety culture is pivotal within the aviation industry as it reduces the potential to large scale disasters. While airlines are deemed to be highly reliable, when an accident occurs the cause usually tends to be human error. The aim …
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The influence of safety culture on safety performance in Saudi Arabian construction industry
… past decades, there has been a realisation that safety, within the Saudi construction industry, has been facing challenges. Even though there are good safety practices in many organisations, the industry lacks well publicised legal provisions and standards for employers to use as a means with …
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The Effects of SMS Implementation on Safety Culture Within Helicopter Emergency Medical Services
Safety Management Systems (SMS) have now become regulation within FAR Part 121 operations with U.S. airports and FAR Part 135 operators coming next. An assessment of the implementation of voluntary SMS programs and their effects on safety culture within major U.S. Helicopter Air Ambulance (HAA) …
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Safety Culture, Training, Understanding, Aviation Passion: The Impact on Manual Flight and Operational Performance
… training, aircraft and systems understanding, safety culture, manual flight behavior, and aviation passion. A survey instrument titled Manual Flight Inventory (MFI) was designed to gather and assess self-reported variables of manual flight behavior, aviation passion, safety culture perception, …
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Patients Safety Culture: A Baseline Assessment Of Nurses' Perceptions In A Saudi Arabia Hospital
<p><strong> ABSTRACT </strong></p> <p>PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE: A BASELINE ASSESSMENT OF NURSES' PERCEPTIONS IN A SAUDI ARABIA HOSPITAL</p> <p>by</p> <p>AHMAD E. ABOSHAIQAH</p> <p>May 2010</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Stephen J. Cavanagh</p> <p>Major: Nursing</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p>Patient …
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