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KMID : 0384920080170020239
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Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
2008 Volume.17 No. 2 p.239 ~ p.249
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A Study on Safety-Health Activities and Safety Culture of Healthcare Industries- As Compared with Food?Lodging?Gas?Electrical Industries -
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Kwon Young-Mi
Kim Soon-Lae
Jung Hye-Sun
Lee Yoon-Jung
Yi Kwan-Hyung
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study intended to investigate how health and safety organization, manage- ment, activities and safety culture of healthcare industries are different from other industries (food, lodging, gas, and electricity industries).
Method: Data were analyzed using ’2005 The National Survey for Occupational Safety and Health Tendency’.
Results: For health and safety training, both new training and regular training time of healthcare sector was lower than comparison sectors. For health and safety manager assigning form, there were many case in healthcare sector to assign a safety manager as a deputy and a health manager as an additional job, there were some differences from comparison sectors. It was found that establishment of countermeasures by cause investigation and analysis execution for occupational accidents in the healthcare sector was lower than comparison sectors. For health and safety activities and safety culture awareness, they were estimated in healthcare sector to be lower than comparison sectors.
Conclusion: Healthcare sector had relatively lower health and safety activities and safety culture awareness compared with comparison sectors. So, it is required business owner’s concerns and efforts to assign exclusively responsible health and safety manager and to activate health and safety training and occupational accident prevention.
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KEYWORD
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Healthcare industry, Health and safety activity, Safety culture
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