Importance of House Safety Training in Healthcare-Free-Samples

Question: Develop your initial research idea. Your research idea should clearly include the research question. Answer: Research idea Research question: Why in-house training fails to produce desired safety outcome? Aim and objective: The main aim of the paper is to find out the factors contributing to failure in desired safety outcome in health care and other occupation. This will be done by the evaluation research articles reporting about in-house training program and barrier to achieving desired outcome in certain organization. The following are the core objective of the paper: To find out the factor contributing to failure of in-house safety training To evaluate performance of in-house training programmes on safety outcomes To find solutions to enhance the success of in-house safety training programme Purpose of the research topic: In-house safety training is important in health care and other organization to prevent workplace injury, adverse event and reduce impact on productivity. However, the current issue is that despite in-house safety training, desired safety outcome has not been achieved. There are examples of many workplace accidents which has occurred because of hazardous environment or negligence of staffs (Thygerson, Sanjel and Johnson, 2016; Walton and Rogers 2017). In such situation, finding out the reason for failure of in-house training in desired outcome in necessary. Hence, this paper is significant to get clear insight about the reason for high rate of hazardous event despite in-house training. This will help to adapt strategies to maximize effectiveness of training program. Conduct literature search and review The review of research literature gave idea about several reasons for poor safety outcome despite in-house training. Aluko et al. (2016) explained that knowledge, attitude and perception of occupational hazards among health care workers have an impact on safety outcome. The study brought attention to the fact that despite safety training, patients are often vulnerable to hazard. This was claimed because of workplace hazards and study of safety practices in a health care facility in Nigeria. The study of perceptions of staffs at the hospital revealed that knowledge of staffs in terms of safety practices varied. 57.6% has high knowledge about possibility of hazards in clinical setting and 42.4% has no knowledge. Another important result was only 58% required got professional training on occupational hazards and others got it through pre-employment orientation only. Hence, inappropriate coverage of in-house safety training might be considered as one of the reason for high rate of workpl ace hazards and injury incidents. The strength of this literature is that it has highlighted about the inefficiency in safety training for workers and impact on level of education and professional specialty on perception of risk. Another implication of this study is that it pointed out to the need for review of pre-employment orientation module to develop positive attitude towards occupation safety. From this evidence, possible solution to address the issue is understood. This includes developing good provision for safety kits and institutionalizing safety drills for workers. Feng et al. (2014) also supported the fact these elements are essential for developing effective safety culture in workplace. The above evidence gave idea about perception and safety practices towards occupational hazards in a health care facility. However, the work condition and environment of other industries might differ. Hence, examining other organization is also necessary to find out factors contributing to in-house safety training. The research by Onowhakpor et al. (2017) is important in this aspect as it investigated about safety practices and knowledge among sawmill workers. As sawmilling industry mainly comprise manual handling where workers are at high risk of occupational health hazards, evaluating the safety practice in such place is considered most important. The interview with sawmill workers revealed that very few workers had good knowledge on occupational hazards. Good knowledge of occupational hazard was found to decrease with age and increase with level of education and experience. The study is in consistent with other studies which showed poor knowledge about safety practices among staff s (Jasani et al. 2016). Other important points that might be a reason for high rate of workplace hazard include lack of protective measures and protocol in workplace and heavy workload of employees (Reason 2016). The strength of the literature is that it has established association between age and knowledge of occupational hazards. In addition, knowledge is highly linked to attitude towards occupational safety practices. Hence, it can be concluded that knowledge is the main determinant that determines compliance with safety practices. This means success of in-house training may differ due to knowledge of workers. In such case, it is necessary to provide workers with good safety equipments and implement additional control measures to reduce economic consequences and impact on productivity. This evidences also points out to a solution to address the issue. This may include holding regular seminars and health education messages to ensure that the essay of adherence to safety practice r emains with workers for long time. High work-life stress and poor safety communication is also considered to be factors resulting in poor health and safety issues for workers. Stress may reduce capacity and diminish attention of workers resulting in accidents (Hammer et al. 2015). (Sneddon, Mearns and Flin (2013) considered work-life stress issues in workers and gave the idea that high stress in the work might also be a reason for failure of in-house safety training. This study mainly investigated about drilling for oil and gas on offshore installation industry, which is hazardous occupation requiring great work situation awareness. Interview with employees revealed relation between stress and unsafe behavior of employees. Apart from this situation awareness was also considered to be a factor affecting workplace safety practices. Hence, the main implication from this study is that it points to the need for greater attention to situation awareness measures particularly in hazardous occupation so that unsafe work behavi or can be controlled. Drilling activity in various organizations can also be considered as a solution to maximize effectiveness of in-house training and prevent safety issues. Situation awareness skills can also reduce stress and develop confidence of staffs in doing work in a confident manner. Therefore, future in-house training programme should focus on developing perception of environment and situation awareness of workers. References Aluko, O. O., Adebayo, A. E., Adebisi, T. F., Ewegbemi, M. K., Abidoye, A. T., and Popoola, B. F. 2016. Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of occupational hazards and safety practices in Nigerian healthcare workers.BMC research notes,9(1), 71. Feng, Y., Teo, E. A. L., Ling, F. Y. Y., Low, S. P. 2014. 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