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This ethnographic study explored the types of challenges faced by healthcare workers and the adaptations they use to overcome them in everyday work. Resilient Healthcare (RHC) is a field that applies insights from multiple domains including safety science, ergonomics and human factors, engineering, psychology, sociology and more. A key focus within RHC is to better… Continue reading Understanding Complex Work Using the Resilience Mechanisms Framework: An Ethnographic Study

This studied the effects of psychological safety (PS) on unethical behaviour (EB) on team performance. 136 three-people teams at university were assessed both on attitudes to cheating (hypothetical) & on actual cheating (via a real assignment that students self-graded as a team, with fake elements added by the lecturer to capture cheating). EB was divided… Continue reading Thick as Thieves: The Effects of Ethical Orientation and Psychological Safety on Unethical Team Behavior

Are the terrors really in the night or are they rather in your biology or your workplace? This study explored the links between the risk of occupational injuries and work scheduling arrangements, such as long working hours, shift work and rest breaks- drawing on 29 high-quality studies. The data are presented as risk ratios relative… Continue reading Terrors in the night or terrors at your workplace? Sleep, shiftwork schedules and accidents/injuries

This study explored the relationship between safety climate, hazard recognition and safety risk perception in US construction. Data from 280 workers employed in 57 construction workplaces was gathered via surveys and use of image-based construction scenarios for participants to identify possible hazards. Providing background on the topic, data is cited highlighting that: Up to 33.5%… Continue reading Impact of safety climate on hazard recognition and safety risk perception

ABSTRACT Background State-level injury rates or fatality rates are sometimes used in studies of the impact of various safety programs or other state policies. How much does the metric used affect the view of relative occupational risks among U.S. states? This paper uses a measure of severe injuries (fatalities) and of less severe injuries (non-fatal… Continue reading States With Low Non-Fatal Injury Rates Have high fatality rates and vice versa

This explored the views and experiences of patient safety walkarounds from the perspective of both senior managers and frontline clinical staff. Semi-structured interviews with 11 leaders and 33 frontline staff at two major teaching hospitals with mature walkaround programs was undertaken. Providing backgrounds, it’s said that walkarounds allow the capturing of intel that isn’t unearthed… Continue reading ‘I think we should just listen and get out’: a qualitative exploration of views and experiences of Patient Safety Walkrounds

This study systematically reviewed the evidence of Psychological Safety (PS) up to 2015. 83 studies were included. Most studies evaluated PS at the team-level, rather than individual or org., where PS is likely “more potent and meaningful at the team level” (p.4). Most antecedents of PS can be grouped under the umbrella of supportive environments:… Continue reading Psychological safety – A systematic review of the literature

One of many studies from Tahira Probst and colleagues on injury underreporting. This study explored underreporting in the context of US construction and the relationship to organisational safety climate. Data from 1,390 employees across 38 companies were included. Results As confirmed by this study and previous work – the rate of injuries experienced by workers… Continue reading Organizational Injury Rate Underreporting: The Moderating Effect of Organizational Safety Climate

ABSTRACT This study tested the contribution of trust between leaders and subordinates to safety. It is suggested that leaders who create a relationship of trust with their subordinates are more likely to create a safe working environment, and to achieve higher and stronger safety-climate perceptions among their subordinates. Hence, trust should be negatively related to… Continue reading The social aspects of safety management: Trust and safety climate

This explored the practice of walkarounds in the English NHS and how they have been implemented in practice and adapted to suit particular contexts and goals. Data is via semi-structured interviews with 82 staff. First, they cover background on walkarounds and use in healthcare. The intended benefit is to “bring together the “sharp end” of… Continue reading Walkrounds in Practice – Corrupting or Enhancing a Quality Improvement Intervention – A Qualitative Study