Using a safety attitudes questionnaire can be useful in measuring the effectiveness of patient safety improvement initiatives, according to an article published in the Journal of Patient Safety.

The University of Texas-Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety offers a series of free, downloadable safety attitudes questionnaires. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire has been ...

You recently took a supervisory job at another firm. There’s a lot that you like about this job, but you’re seeing less than full commitment to safety among your crew and other crews. In fact, their ...

If workers are overly optimistic that no injuries will befall them, they may be more likely to take risks that could end up in injuries. Investigating why some workers do not wear eye protective in ...

Human workers are imperfect, which is why there’s no magic bullet that will give you a safe workplace. But new research on human behavior and how that translates into safety attitudes is helping some ...

The film emphasizes the importance of safety consciousness in preventing accidents in industrial settings. It illustrates how individual attitudes towards safety can vary, affecting behavior and ...

Everyone supports safety. The popular “Reptile” approach to trying plaintiffs’ cases is built on the strength of safety as a core value. It is a common sense attitude to prefers greater security over ...

To learn more about educators’ views on school climate, discipline, and safety, the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center conducted an online survey of teachers and school administrators.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the United Kingdom has published research into how attitudes and behaviors on food safety vary between different audiences. Food and You survey data was used to ...

This much can be said with confidence: Attitude instruments do not fail often. But about twice a year their failures do lead to accidents. In instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), the airplane ...

Off-the-job safety is considered by some safety professionals to be the final frontier when it comes to affecting change in a worker’s safety beliefs and behavior. Effectively reaching employees away ...

I have conducted thousands of driving evaluations over 25 years and have run across very few truly bad drivers. This raises the question: why do we continue to have so many accidents on our roads and ...