Macro and Micro Ergonomic Outcomes in Healthcare: Unraveling the Relationship Between Patient Handling Performance and Safety Climate
| Autor: | Michael Fray, Patrick Waterson, Colin Munro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | IIE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors. 3:58-71 |
| ISSN: | 2157-7331 2157-7323 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/21577323.2014.989338 |
| Popis: | OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONS The management of risks surrounding patient handling activities continues to be an important factor in healthcare organizations. A great deal of research has been undertaken to investigate the best practices for physical transfers and equipment provision, yet there is less research adopting an organizational systems approach to this problem. In this article we compare two methods for assessing safety climate and patient handling safety performance and argue that a multi-level (mesoergonomic) interpretation of the relationship between the two affords insights into the safety of the system as a whole.TECHNICAL ABSTRACT Background: Karsh et al. ((2014)) proposed a model for developing cross-level ergonomics investigations, which clarified the inclusion of micro, macro, and meso level factors to any organizational investigation. The growing body of research into the management of patient handling risks has not adopted these multi-level organizational systems approaches. Purpose: In t... |
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