The passing of The Occupational Safety Health Act and the subsequent release of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report had resulted a stronger sense of awareness towards workplace and patient safety in the Healthcare Industry. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended Interprofessional education as one of the preparative module in handling safety issues in the healthcare Industry.The aim of this paper was to evaluate the students’ knowledge, perception, attitude, interrelationship, inclusion, understanding and teamwork towards patient and workplace safety.The research was conducted by administering questionnaires to returning allied health students from their internship in the healthcare settings. The overall results indicated that 63.4% of the students Agreed, 18.3% Neutral, 17.9% Strongly Agreed and only 0.3% had Disagreed on the impact of Interprofessional education towards patient and workplace safety in the Healthcare Setting.Occupational Safety Health and Interprofessional Education are relatively new concepts in Malaysia and require a strong understanding before a strong concluding stand could be established. The researcher feels a more concurrent approach should be implemented to actually know the impact of Interprofessional education towards patient and workplace safety in the healthcare settings.
Interprofessional education ; patient safety ; workplace safety ; allied health

Work environment has been described as an important factor in the job satisfaction of nurses and their quality of service provided. However, little is known of the present work environment of Filipino nurses in the country. This study used a cross-sectional design to describe work environment variables affecting Filipino nurses; determine the degree of nurses' job satisfaction;, and determine their intention to remain in their present work environment. A self-administered survey was developed by the study team and was distributed during the PNA national conference   through the Chapter Presidents. This   study discovered   that the lowest positive responses were in the Physiologic  and  Safety  Needs  but  despite  this  result,  nurses  reported  high  job satisfaction and intend to remain in their present work environment.

Human ; Male ; Female ; Aged ; Middle Aged ; Adult ; Job Satisfaction ; Intention ; Workplace ; Safety

OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to collect data on the occupational health systems implemented across selected healthcare facilities in the Philippines, including: (1) governance system for occupational health and safety (OHS), (2) OHS information systems, (3) OHS financing systems, (4) technology and related systems for OHS, (5) the OHS workforce, and (6) the delivery of OHS services.
METHODS: The data were collected through a walkthrough survey of the selected facilities as well as through the review of records and relevant documents found in the facilities.
RESULTS: Governance and financing systems for OHS are not present in any of the facilities. 3 out of the 13 hospitals studied have employee medical records, accident/incident reports while none of the 19 facilities have Workplace Environment Monitoring Reports (WEM), implying the lack of OHS information systems. Due to the lack of a financing mechanism for occupational health services, there is a lack of OHS technology in the facilities which include but are not limited to the presence of an Immunization and Post-Exposure Program (present in 7 out of 13 hospitals and none of the 6 RHUs studied). 1 out of 19 facilities reported to having personnel delegated for OHS activities in their facility. Lastly, 1 out of 19 facilities have emergency treatment and medical facilities for their employees, indicating inadequate OHS service delivery in the facilities studied.
CONCLUSIONS: Standards and laws such as the Philippine OHS Standards and Department of Health (DOH) Administrative Order (AO) 2012-0020 have provisions with regard to OHS in these facilities, and stricter implementation of these provisions could help in filling in the gaps in the OHS systems in these facilities. This will provide a healthy workforce capable of giving better healthcare services to the general population.

Human ; Occupational Health Services ; Occupational Health ; Workplace ; Rhus ; Safety ; Immunization ; Vaccination ; Hospitals ; Medical Records ; Emergency Treatment

Healthcare workers face significant risks of workplace violence, which includes verbal, physical, and sexual assaults and harassment. Most violent acts are committed by patient and their family members, although in some cases, medical staff may perpetrate various types of violence against other medical staff. In the course of training, professors or senior residents sometimes criticize junior residents who make mistakes. However, beyond a certain point, the purpose of protecting the patient from harm is lost and only the violence remains. Various efforts should be made to prevent workplace violence against healthcare workers. First, it is necessary to investigate the actual incidence of workplace violence in healthcare settings. Second, each hospital should have a process in place to expedite the response when a violent act is reported. Third, the Korean Hospital Association should ask individual hospitals to take appropriate measures when victims file complaints with the Korean Hospital Association. Fourth, medical societies and the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences should strive to create a healthy training environment in which residents are respected and educated. Fifth, violence prevention education is needed as part of medical school coursework. Sixth, the Korean Medical Association should organize a consultative body including the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences, the Korean Hospital Association, and the Korean Association of Medical Colleges, to encourage the entire medical community to spread safety culture in health care settings. Through these efforts, a new safety culture should be created by integrating patient safety and worker safety in health care settings.
Delivery of Health Care ; Education ; Humans ; Incidence ; Medical Staff ; Patient Safety ; Safety Management ; Schools, Medical ; Sexual Harassment ; Societies, Medical ; Violence ; Workplace Violence

Recently, a violent incident in which a drunken patient attacked an emergency physician at a general hospital emergency department (ED) shocked the entire country of Korea. According to a study published in the Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine and a recent survey conducted by the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine, workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare providers in the ED is common in Korea. Most of the violent offenders were males and between the ages of 30 and 40 years old. However, many of the victims were nurses. WPV against healthcare providers in the ED most often occurred during the night shift, and 77.4% to 88.1% of cases involved verbal insults and threats. Diverse efforts should be made to prevent WPV against healthcare providers in the ED and to improve the responses to cases of WPV. A national reporting system should be established. Current laws must be strictly enforced, and further amendments to the law are also needed. The Governmental Emergency Medical Basic Plan should include an improvement plan for WPV against healthcare providers in the ED every 5 years. It is necessary to establish and enforce a national standard police protocol for preventing and responding to WPV against healthcare providers in the ED. Support for resources, such as an ED police program, security personnel, and equipment such as closed-circuit television, is needed. Most of all, it is important to advance the culture of people's use of the ED and to promote safety culture.
Criminals ; Delivery of Health Care ; Emergencies ; Emergency Medicine ; Emergency Service, Hospital ; Health Personnel ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Jurisprudence ; Korea ; Male ; Patient Safety ; Police ; Safety Management ; Shock ; Television ; Violence ; Workplace Violence

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to identify patient safety awareness and emergency response ability and affecting factors perceived by nursing homes and home visiting caregivers. METHODS: This study was a descriptive study that conveniently extracts nursing caregivers who care for elderly patients in S and G provinces, Korea. Data collection was done by structural questionnaires from April to May 2018. A total of 204 responses consisting of 103 nursing homes and 101 home visiting caregivers were used for data analysis in SPSS Win 22.0. RESULTS: Patient safety awareness and emergency response ability of nursing homes caregivers with each 4.24±0.50, 74.26±09.57 was each higher than that of the home visiting caregivers with 3.68±0.49, 68.02±12.12 (p < .001). The affecting factors of the patient safety awareness were working place, safety education, and daily average working hours with 12 or more (F = 27.30, p < .001) and that of emergency response ability were number of patients per personnel with 9 or more and emergency situation experience (F=14.00, p < .001). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that it is necessary to develop a safety education program that can share indirectly experience emergency situations that occur on the job site.
Aged ; Caregivers* ; Data Collection ; Education ; Emergencies* ; House Calls* ; Humans ; Korea ; Nursing Homes* ; Nursing* ; Patient Safety* ; Statistics as Topic ; Workplace

OBJECTIVETo investigate the risk factors for depressive disorders in manufacturing workers and to provide a basis for developing health promotion measures at workplace.

METHODSA questionnaire survey was performed in 8085 front-line production workers from 33 manufacturing enterprises in Nanhai District of Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. The questionnaire contained a survey of demographic characteristics, the Safety Climate Scale, the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, etc. The multilevel logistic regression analysis was applied to investigate the risk factors for depressive disorders in workers.

RESULTSA total of 6260 workers completed the survey; their mean age was 31.1 ± 8.6 years, and 53.2% of them were males. The multilevel logistic regression analysis showed that after adjustment for sociodemographic factors such as age, sex, and martial status, more depressive disorders were reported in the enterprises with higher score of "production safety training" than in those with lower score (OR = 1.46, 95%CI = 1.07 ∼ 1.97); fewer depressive disorders were reported in the enterprises with higher score of "colleagues concerned about production safety" than in those with lower score (OR = 0.08, 95%CI = 0.03 ∼ 0.26); the relationships of "safety warnings and precautions" and "managers concerned about production safety" with workers' depressive disorders were not statistically significant (OR = 0.78, 95%CI = 0.48 ∼ 1.28; OR = 1.08, 95%CI = 0.68 ∼ 1.72).

CONCLUSIONDepressive disorders in manufacturing workers are related to the safety climate at workplace, which indicates that a good safety climate at workplace should be created to prevent and control depressive disorders in workers.

Adolescent ; Adult ; China ; Depression ; Female ; Humans ; Logistic Models ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Occupational Health ; Safety ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Workplace ; Young Adult

Residents who are currently in the process of completing graduate medical education (GME) will eventually become independently practicing professionals; therefore, the quality of GME is of enormous importance for our society. To improve the quality of GME in Korea, we, as young doctors, suggest that the government support funding for GME; make all possible efforts to ensure reasonable and sustainable working conditions for residents; implement adequate maternity plans; prohibit all kinds of unauthorized medical practice by other healthcare providers; and prevent all kinds of workplace violence toward residents. These measures to improve the quality of GME will surely benefit patient safety and the overall quality of healthcare in the future.
Delivery of Health Care* ; Education, Medical, Graduate ; Financial Management ; Health Personnel ; Humans ; Internship and Residency ; Korea* ; Patient Safety ; Quality of Health Care ; Workplace Violence