Healthcare Worker Serious Safety Events: Applying Concepts from Patient Safety to Improve Healthcare Worker Safety. [PDF]
Pediatr Qual Saf, 2021 Introduction: Patient safety has improved pediatric healthcare by defining when patient safety events meet criteria as serious safety events (SSEs). Similar concepts apply to healthcare worker (HCW) safety. We describe the newly designed process for HCW injury reporting, the process for evaluating HCW SSEs, and early experience
Foster C +6 more
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Opportunities for Using Building Information Modeling to Improve Worker Safety Performance
Safety, 2017 Building information modelling (BIM) enables the creation of a digital representation of a designed facility combined with additional information about the project attributes, performance criteria, and construction process.
Kasim Alomari +2 more
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No patient safety without health worker safety. [PDF]
Lancet, 2020 Shaw A +4 more
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Leveraging Strategic Foresight to Advance Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Jessica Streit, John Howard
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Man Down Situation Detection Using an in-Ear Inertial Platform
Sensors, 2021 Man down situations (MDS) are a health or life threatening situations occurring largely in high-risk industrial workplaces. MDS automatic detection is crucial for workers safety especially in isolated working conditions where workers could be unable to ...
Alex Guilbeault-Sauvé +2 more
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Frontline Hospital Workers and the Worker Safety/Patient Safety Nexus [PDF]
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 2013 Previous work on the relationship between worker safety and patient safety has focused on nurses and physicians.1 Safety climate and nurses’ working conditions predict both patient injuries and nurse injuries, supporting the premise that these outcomes may be linked.2 Less attention has been paid to other members of the health care team, including ...
Rosemary, Sokas +7 more
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Lightning Safety for Florida Agriculture Workers
EDIS, 2018 Lightning is a common occurrence in the Sunshine State. In fact, Florida is known as the lightning capital of the U.S. and ranks number one in lightning-caused deaths.
Shawn T. Steed, Alicia J. Whidden
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An Embedded Sensory System for Worker Safety: Prototype Development and Evaluation [PDF]
Sensors, 2018 Chunhee Cho +2 more
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Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries using data from the United States (US) and Germany. Our empirical analyses, based on establishment-level data for the US, suggest that a one standard deviation increase in robot exposure reduces work-related injuries by approximately 16%. These results
Rania Gihleb +3 more
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Health and Safety Challenges Among Post-Disaster Reconstruction Workers
Construction Economics and Building, 2023 With the increase in the number of natural disasters in recent years, post-disaster reconstruction (PDR) efforts have become increasingly important to aid community recovery.
S M Jamil Uddin +4 more
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