A Study on Safety-Health Activities and Safety Culture of Healthcare Industries - As Compared with Food·Lodging·Gas·Electrical Industries -

보건의료업의 안전보건활동 및 안전문화의식정도 - 음식·숙박·가스·전기업종과의 비교 -

  • 권영미 (가톨릭대학교 성가병원) ;
  • 김순례 (가톨릭대학교 성가병원 외래간호팀) ;
  • 정혜선 (가톨릭대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실) ;
  • 이윤정 (서울대학교 간호대학) ;
  • 이관형 (한국산업안전공단 산업안전보건연구원 안전경영정책연구팀)
  • Received : 2008.11.09
  • Accepted : 2008.11.24
  • Published : 2008.11.30

Abstract

Purpose: This study intended to investigate how health and safety organization, management, 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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