Psicosociología

This lecture will describe the results of a randomized field study designed to improve safety climate and resultant safety performance by modifying daily messages in supervisory-worker communications. Supervisors in the experimental group received two individualized feedback sessions regarding the extent to which they integrated safety and productivity-related issues in daily verbal exchanges with their workers while those in the control group received no feedback.

Violence at work has been identified as a difficult problem in many countries. In Finland, the problem seems to be on the increase e.g. among health care workers. Hence there is an urgent need for preventive actions. The main objective of the present study was to improve violence prevention in health care, especially hospitals. The development process of a model integrating violence prevention in health and safety management was carried out in close collaboration with health care organizations, authorities and other partners.

The interest in safety culture has hardly died down since it appeared in the spotlights some twenty years ago. Scholars and safety professionals alike, have been attempting to pin down this elusive concept, to make sense of it, to measure it, and to change it.

La situación de crisis que persistentemente esta viviendo una parte del mundo y que tiene manifestaciones en parte especificas en cada país o región ha planteado de forma ineludible la cuestión de la sostenibilidad de la calidad de vida en el trabajo y la viabilidad de los avances realizados en materia de prevención de riesgos psicosociales y de promoción de la salud y bienestar en el trabajo.