OBJECTIVE To identify determinants of mothers' home-safety practices for preventing six types of common injuries to children (burns, poisoning, drowning, cuts, strangulation/suffocation/choking, and falls). METHODS Home interviews were conducted with mothers of children 19-24 and 25-30 months old about home-safety practices. For each of 30 safety precautions to prevent these six types of inju...

Concern has arisen for the safety of children using the Internet to support their education outside the school context. Inappropriate material such as pornography, inflammatory and racist writings can be accessed both by accident and with deliberate intent to view. Children are also perceived to be at risk from approaches by strangers, particularly in web-based chat rooms. A survey of the inter...

Commercial motor vehicle safety is of utmost importance, as crashes involving commercial vehicles often result in significant property damage, injuries, fatalities, and financial loss for fleets. However, fleet managers are unsure what strategies other fleets have used to successfully improve safety. To identify best practices, researchers completed case studies with nine that improved their pe...

Objective To assess the effectiveness of safety advice and safety equipment in reducing unintentional injuries for families with children aged under 5 years and living in deprived areas. Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting 47 general practices in Nottingham. Participants 3428 families with children under 5. Intervention A standardised safety consultation and provision of free and fitted...

Job safety was examined as a mediator of the relationship between management practices, programs, and employee commitment in Ghana's mining sector. A descriptive study approach used, specifically cross-sectional survey. The research discovered clear link practices commitment. It shown that measures had strong positive association with job safety. also significant connection mediated by This dem...

Institutional foodborne illness outbreaks continue to hit the headlines in the country, indicating the failure of food handlers to adhere to safe practices during food preparation. Thus, this study aimed to compare the knowledge, attitude, and self-reported practices (KAP) of food safety assessment and microbiological assessment of food handlers’ hands as an indicator of hygiene practices in fo...

BACKGROUND The majority of patient contacts occur in general practice but general practice patient safety has been poorly described and under-researched to date compared to hospital settings. Our objective was to produce a set of patient safety tools and indicators that can be used in general practices in any healthcare setting and develop a 'toolkit' of feasible patient safety measures for gen...