While climate change continues to increase ambient temperatures, the resulting heat stress exposure to workers in non-climate controlled settings is not well characterized, particularly in low and middle income countries. This preliminary report describes current heat stress in Nicaraguan work places and estimates occupational heat stress in 2050. From over 400 measurements of heat exposure usi...

conclusions hospital managers need to discover better ways to promote safety and health programs for their staff according to nurses’ area of work and their type of units. they should also encourage greater levels of participation in safety-enhancing initiatives in the hospital’s ethical climate, especially in the areas of nurses’ perceptions of their physician colleagues, and for nurses with a...

BACKGROUND Organizations that encourage the respectful expression of diverse spiritual views have higher productivity and performance, and support employees with greater organizational commitment and job satisfaction. Within healthcare, there is a paucity of studies which define or intervene on the spiritual needs of healthcare workers, or examine the effects of a pro-spirituality environment o...

In occupational safety, prevention and protection usually involve the use of some sort of barriers. To estimate accurately safety barriers effectiveness it is of paramount importance to assure its performance and consequently keep the risks on adequate levels. But, what is safety barrier effectiveness? How to estimate it without statistical reliable data? Estimate the effectiveness of safety ba...

BACKGROUND Although patient safety climate is an important factor in preventing adverse events in health care organizations, there is no usable Japanese scale. OBJECTIVE To develop a Japanese scale to measure patient safety climate and to evaluate its psychometric properties. METHODS Cross-sectional questionnaire survey was conducted with respect to 9 non-academic general hospitals in Japan...

This paper argues that discussion of new food-safety governance should be framed by the realization that the dominant food system within which food-safety governance is designed to makes food safe is itself a structural and systemic sources of food un-safety, poor health and a future of food insecurity for many. For some, an appropriate policy response lies in addressing the connections between...

Introduction: High death and injury rates at work are continually reported by the Ministry of Labour, Thailand, despite promotion occupational safety, health, environment (OSHE) management system across all enterprises. To identify gap between OSHE workers’ perception in terms safety climate Thai organizations, Nordic Safety Climate Questionnaire-Thai Version (T-NOSACQ) was used this study. Met...