Relatıonship Between Occupational Accidents of Industrial Workers and Health Literacy and Workplace Safety Climate
Author :
Abstract
Keywords
Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between occupational accidents of industrial workers, health literacy and workplace safety climate.
Methods: This study was conducted with workers working in the industrial zone of Gemlık, Bursa between August 2020 and December 2020. These individuals were visited in their workplaces. The volunteers were asked to fill out a sociodemographic data form, the Workplace Safety Climate Survey and the Newest Vital Sign Form.
Results: Health literacy level was evaluated among the workers with and without days away from work due to occupational accident and the results were found to be significantly higher for those without days away from work (p=0.001). According to this assessment, total mean score of the Workplace Safety Climate Survey was calculated as 35.45±10.6 (min.=20, max.=70) for individuals with days away from work due to occupational accident and as 48.82±7.81 (min.=27, max.=70) for participants without occupational accident, and statistically there was a significant difference between them (p<0.001). When the relationship between the Newest Vital Sign Scale and Workplace Safety Climate Survey was analyzed, it was determined that positive safety climate perception of the participants significantly and positively affected their health literacy mean scores (r=0.294; p=<0.001).
Conclusions: This study has demonstrated that the health literacy level of employees affects their occupational accident experiences. From this point of view, it may be suggested that employees who work in high risk fields could be chosen from among those with higher health literacy levels. In general terms, the importance of regular trainings for the purpose of decreasing accident rates has been once more shown with this study.
Keywords
- 1. Nutbeam D. Health promotion glossary. Health Promot. Int. (1998) 13 (4): 349-364.)
- literacyprogram.page,Erişim tarihi: 07.01.2021
- 3. Glossary of Health Promotion and promotion.http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/64546/3/978 97 903613_tur.pdf, Erişim tarihi: 07.01.2021
- 4. Hayes vd., 1998; hayes, b. e., perander, j., smecko,t. ve trask, j. (1998). ―Measuring Perceptions ofWorkplace Safety: Development and Validation of TheWork Safety Scale‖, Journal of Safety Research, 29(3), 145-161.
- 5. Varonen ve Matilla, 2000; varonen, u. ve mattila, m.(2000). ―The Safety Climate and Its Relationship ToSafety Practices, Safety of The Work Environment andOccupational Accidents in Eight Wood-ProcessingCompanies‖, Accident Analysis & Prevention, 32(6): 761769.
- 6. Mearns, Whitaker ve Flin, 2003 : mearns, k.,whitaker, s. m. ve flin, r. (2003). Safety Climate,Safety Management Practice and Safety PerformanceIn Offshore Environments‖ Safety Science, 41(8): 641- 680.
- 7. Clarke, 2006: clarke s. (2006). The RelationshipBetween Safety Climate and Safety Performance: AMeta-Analytic Review‖, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 11(4):31527.
- 8. Guastello, 1992: guastello, s.j. (1992). Accidentsand Stress-related Health Disorders Among BusOperators: Forecasting With Catastrophe Theory‖. InJ.C. Quick, L.R. Murphy, ve J.J. Hurrell, Jr. (Eds.), Stress and Well-Being At Work (pp. 252–269)
- 9. Rauscher KJ, Myers DJ. Occupational health literacyand work-related injury among US adolescents. Int JInj Contr Saf Promot [Internet]. 2014;21(1):81–9.Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2013.792288
- 10. Weiss BD, Palmer R. Relationship between healthcare costs and very low literacy skills in a medicallyneedy and indigent Medicaid population. J Am Board Fam Pract 2004;17:44-7.
- 11.Fatih ÇİFTÇİ, Hakan DEMİRCİ, Hilal Nemli ÇİFTÇİ,Gökhan OCAKOĞLU Validation of Turkish Version ofNewest Vital Sign Scale to Assess Health Literacy Bezmialem Science 2021;9(2):219-25
- 12. Ozdemir H, Alper Z, Uncu Y, Bilgel N. Healthliteracy among adults: a study from Turkey. HealthEduc Res. 2010;25(3):464-7713.CHOUDHRY, R.M., FANG, D., ve LINGARD, H.(2009). ―Measuring Safety Climate of A ConstructionCompany‖, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 135(9): 890-899.
- 14.Türen, U., Gökmen, Y., Tokmak, İ. & Bekmezci, M.(2014). Validity and reliability study of the securityclimate scale, Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 19(4), 171-190.
- 15. http://tez.sdu.edu.tr/Tezler/TT01281.pdf (Last access 13.02.2021)
- 16. Karimy M, Niknami S, Hidarnia AR, Hajizadeh I.Intention to start smoking among Iranian maleadolescents: the utility of an expanded version of the planned behavior theory. 2012; 4 : 120–4.
- 17. Escudero DVS, Furtado GHC, Medeiros EA.Compliance of health workers with follow-up afteroccupational exposure to blood and bodily fluids at aTeaching Hospital in Brazil.Ann Occup Hyg. 2015; 59 : 566–71
- weaknesses among socio-demographic groups: theHealth Literacy Survey (HLQ) is a cross-sectional survey using BMC Public Health 2015; 15 : 678
- 19. Karadal, H , Merdan, E . (2017). the role of safetyclimate and safety culture on workplace injuries .International Journal of Management Economics andbusiness, 13 (13) , 912-919 . Retrieved fromhttps://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijmeb/issue/54601/744
- 20. The European Health Literacy Project, 2009- 2012.Comperative Report on Health Literacy in eight EUMember States, Maastricht, HLS-EU Consortium, 2012.www.healthliteracy.eu (Last access 13 Şubat 2021)
- 21. Özdemir, H., Alper, Z., Uncu, Y., & Bilgel, N. Health Education Research, 2010; 25 (3): p. 464477.
- 22.Yörük Karakılıç, N , Barın, N . (2019). Effects OfManagement Culture On Security Climate: AnApplication In Afyon Marble Sector .The journal ofbehavior at work , 4 (2) , 88-97 . DOI: 10.25203/idd.661121
