Yönetim ve Ekonomi (Dec 2020)

Analysis of the Effects of Occupational Health and Safety Trainings on Safety Culture in the Health Sector

  • Ö. Hakan ÇAVUŞ,
  • Rıdvan KESKİN

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18657/yonveek.592878
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 27, no. 3
pp. 627 – 644

Abstract

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Occupational health and safety can be defined as a collection of studies and practices aiming at reducing occupational risks and occupational risks due to physical environment in the workplace. Occupational health and safety is the most important method of creating a safety culture together with the occupational health and safety system. Employees demonstrate healthy and safe behaviors by applying knowledge and skills the yacquire through occupational health and safety training to their work. As in other sectors, health care workers are frequently faced with biological, chemical, physical and psychosocial risk factors specific to their sectors. It is aimed to reduce all risks with the security culture to be created through trainings in the health sector. The aim of the study is to measure the effects of occupational health and safety trainings on safety culture. As a result of the analysis, the Coronbach's Alpha (α) value of the 22 question items used in the questionnaire is 0.927, which shows that the survey questions are consistent in itself and measure the work done very well. Also obtained by exploratory (explanatory) factor analysis; It shows that the α values of the three factors named as "Safety Rules", "Safety Communication" and "Safety Training" represent the factors of the question items in the factors very well and are consistent within themselves.

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