Özet:

Employee health and safety are one of the most important elements of the human resource management process. Patient safety is one of the main indicators of quality health care. Both patient safety as well as the health and safety of the workers, the efficiency in hospitals also increases. For hospitals to these results, both managers and employees need to give safety priority. In this regard, it is expected that all stakeholders will show a firm attitude and take responsibility. This study was carried out with the aim of promoting the claim that the safety culture of work is determinant on the safety culture of patients. For this purpose, the staff of all public and private hospitals located in the Elazığ province center were collected data by accepting the main mass. The data collection was used by the survey technique. The survey form included Williamson’s “Security Culture Scale” (27 articles), Sorra and Nieva’s “Patient Safety Culture Scale” (42 articles) and demographic characteristics (6 questions). As of February 2018, the main mass included a total of 3479 health workers. 330 of the 540 survey forms distributed to hospitals were recovered and 313 survey forms were evaluated. The study found that both the participants’ work safety culture perceptions (ao=3,38; ss=0,45) and the patient safety culture perceptions (ao=3,09; ss=0,40) were at a vasat level. The determining impact of the perception of labor safety culture on the patient safety culture was determined in a positive direction and a positive. It was found that the work safety culture could have a 25% impact on the patient safety culture [r=0,503; r2=0,251; p<0,001].

Özet:

Employee health and safety is one of the most important elements of the Human Resource Management Process. Patient safety is one of the main indicators of quality health service delivery. Both patient safety and employee health and safety also increase productivity in hospitals. In order for hospitals to achieve these results, both managers and employees need to prioritize safety. It is expected to show a committed attitude and take responsibility for all of its stakeholders. This study was conducted to provide empirical support for claiming that job safety culture is a determinant of patient safety culture. For this purpose, employees of all public and private sector hospitals in Elazığ province center were accepted as main mass and data were collected. Survey technique was used to collect data. In the questionnaire, Williamson's "Security Culture Scale" (27 items), Sorra and Nieva's "Patient Safety Culture Scale" (42 items) and demographic questions (14 questions) were included. As of February 2018, there were a total of 3,479 health workers in the mainstream. Of the 540 questionnaires distributed to the hospitals, 330 could be retrieved and 313 questionnaires could be evaluated. As a result of the research, participants were found to have a moderate level of both job safety culture perceptions (ao = 3,36; ss = 0,85) and patient safety culture perceptions (ao = 3,08; ss = 0,44). The determinative effect of occupational safety culture perception on patient safety culture was positive and mediocre. Work safety culture was found to be 25% effective on culture of patient safety [r = 0,503; r2 = 0.251; p <0.001].

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