Relationships between effective safety training, safety knowledge and personal protective equipment related behaviors among firefighters.

Introduction: Firefighter injuries and fatalities have been attributed to improper or ineffective use of personal protective equipment (PPE). Although studies have examined predictors of PPE to include situational, leadership, stressors and other psychosocial factors, research has not thoroughly examined the relationships between effective safety training administration, knowledge creation, and the influence of those factors on PPE use among firefighters.

Method: This study aimed to assess those relationships by using structural equation modeling analysis.

Safety climate and seat belt use in the fire service.

Objective: Motor vehicle incidents or apparatus crashes are a leading cause of firefighter fatalities in the United States. Nonuse of seat belts has been linked to some of these fatalities. This research seeks to understand the relationship between safety climate and seat belt use among firefighters, as findings will provide insights into factors that may bolster seat belt use and protect firefighters.

Firefighter Stress, Anxiety, and Diminished Compliance-Oriented Safety Behaviors: Consequences of Passive Safety Leadership in the Fire Service?

Safety-specific passive leadership has been negatively linked to diminished safety outcomes, including safety behaviors. However, this relationship is not fully understood. Research has not fully examined mediating factors that may be influenced by passive leadership, which then influence safety behaviors.

Evaluating the impact of the live healthy, work healthy program on organizational outcomes: A randomized field experiment.

The prevalence of chronic health conditions is increasing, with over half the current workforce attempting to manage one or more chronic conditions. The Live Healthy, Work Healthy (LHWH) program is a version of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program translated to the workplace, with the goal of improving and sustaining the health, well-being, and productivity of employees living with chronic health conditions. Using organizational support theory as a theoretical framework and a clustered randomized controlled trial design, this article demonstrates how the LHWH program positively impacts work-related quality of life, orientations toward the organization, and organizational cognitions and behaviors.

Occupational Stress and Burnout in the Fire Service: Examining the Complex Role and Impact of Sleep Health.

The occupational stress inherent in firefighting poses both physiological and psychological risks to firefighters that have been found to possess a reciprocal nature. That is, the nature of these relationships in terms of indicator and impact are elusive, especially as it relates to sleep health (e.g.

Stress, burnout and diminished safety behaviors: An argument for Total Worker Health® approaches in the fire service.

Introduction: Firefighting is stressful work, which can result in burnout. Burnout is a safety concern as it can negatively impact safety outcomes. These impacts are not fully understood within the fire service.

Firefighter Overexertion: A Continuing Problem Found in an Analysis of Non-Fatal Injury Among Career Firefighters.

Traditionally, safety-related research on firefighting has focused on fires and fireground smoke as the primary source of non-fatal firefighter injury. However, recent research has found that overexertion and musculoskeletal disorders may be the primary source of firefighter injury. This study aimed to provide an update on injury occurrence among career firefighters.

Translating CDSMP to the Workplace: Results of the Live Healthy Work Healthy Program.

Purpose: Report the results of a randomized, controlled trial of Live Healthy, Work Healthy (LHWH), a worksite translation of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP).

Design: 14 worksites were randomly assigned to LHWH, standard CDSMP (usual care) or no-intervention (control) group.

Setting: The diverse set of work organizations centered around a rural community in SE US.

Safety specific transformational leadership, safety motivation and personal protective equipment use among firefighters.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) use, although normally the last line of preferred hazard control, is vital to protecting firefighters. It is vital that research identify factors that positively influence firefighter behaviors associated with PPE use. Data were collected from 742 career firefighters working for metropolitan fire departments in both the eastern and western United States.

Reach, Uptake, and Satisfaction of Three Delivery Modes of .

. FUEL Your Life (FYL) is a worksite translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). In a randomized controlled trial, participants in a phone coaching condition demonstrated greater weight loss compared to participants in a group coaching or self-study condition.

Multi-level safety climate associations with safety behaviors in the fire service.

Introduction: Limited research associated with safety climate has been completed within the fire service. Given this dearth of information, the present study sought to identify a valid and reliable measure of safety climate at both the workgroup and organizational levels within the fire service.

Methods: Researchers surveyed 994 firefighters in two large metropolitan fire departments.

The workplace health group: A case study of 20 years of multidisciplinary research.

The Workplace Health Group (WHG) was established in 1998 to conduct research on worker health and safety and organizational effectiveness. This multidisciplinary team includes researchers with backgrounds in psychology, health promotion and behavior, and intervention design, implementation, and evaluation. The article begins with a brief history of the team, its guiding principles, and stages of team formation and development.

Impact of a Translated Disease Self-Management Program on Employee Health and Productivity: Six-Month Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Disease management is gaining importance in workplace health promotion given the aging workforce and rising chronic disease prevalence. The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) is an effective intervention widely offered in diverse community settings; however, adoption remains low in workplace settings. As part of a larger NIH-funded randomized controlled trial, this study examines the effectiveness of a worksite-tailored version of CDSMP (wCDSMP [ = 72]) relative to CDSMP (‘Usual Care’ [ = 109]) to improve health and work performance among employees with one or more chronic conditions.

Cost Effectiveness of a Weight Management Program Implemented in the Worksite: Translation of Fuel Your Life.

Objective: Conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of the Fuel Your Life (FYL) program dissemination.

Methods: Employees were recruited from three workplaces randomly assigned to one of the conditions: telephone coaching, small group coaching, and self-study. Costs were collected prospectively during the efficacy trial.

Does Organizational and Coworker Support Moderate Diabetes Risk and Job Stress Among Employees?

Purpose: Examine the moderating role of perceived organizational and coworker support on the relationship between job stress and type 2 diabetes risk among employees.

Design: A cross-sectional survey was administered to employees at the workplace.

Setting: One national retail organization.

Impact of work pressure, work stress and work-family conflict on firefighter burnout.

Little research has explored burnout and its causes in the American fire service. Data were collected from career firefighters in the southeastern United States ( = 208) to explore these relationships. A hierarchical regression model was tested to examine predictors of burnout including sociodemographic characteristics (model 1), work pressure (model 2), work stress and work-family conflict (model 3) and interaction terms (model 4).

Safety climate and firefighting: Focus group results.

Background: Firefighting is a hazardous occupation and there have been numerous calls for fundamental changes in how fire service organizations approach safety and balance safety with other operational priorities. These calls, however, have yielded little systematic research.

Methods: As part of a larger project to develop and test a model of safety climate for the fire service, focus groups were used to identify potentially important dimensions of safety climate pertinent to firefighting.

Factors Associated With Interest in Worksite Health-Related Discussions/Events Among Employed Adults With Chronic Conditions.

Objective: Worksite health promotion interventions have the potential to reach half of Americans nationally, but low participation rates hinder optimal intervention effectiveness. This study examines factors associated with employee interest in worksite health-related discussions/events.

Method: We analyzed cross-sectional survey data from a representative sample of employed adults in California with one or more chronic conditions.

Strategies for Worksite Health Interventions to Employees with Elevated Risk of Chronic Diseases.

Chronic disease rates have become more prevalent in the modern American workforce, which has negative implications for workplace productivity and healthcare costs. Offering workplace health interventions is recognized as an effective strategy to reduce chronic disease progression, absenteeism, and healthcare costs as well as improve population health. This review documents intervention and evaluation strategies used for health promotion programs delivered in workplaces.

Effects of organizational safety practices and perceived safety climate on PPE usage, engineering controls, and adverse events involving liquid antineoplastic drugs among nurses.

Antineoplastic drugs pose risks to the healthcare workers who handle them. This fact notwithstanding, adherence to safe handling guidelines remains inconsistent and often poor. This study examined the effects of pertinent organizational safety practices and perceived safety climate on the use of personal protective equipment, engineering controls, and adverse events (spill/leak or skin contact) involving liquid antineoplastic drugs.

Effect of Intensity and Program Delivery on the Translation of Diabetes Prevention Program to Worksites: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Fuel Your Life.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Fuel Your Life program, an adaptation of the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), utilizing implementation strategies commonly used in worksite programs-telephone coaching, small group coaching, and self-study.

Methods: The primary outcomes of body mass index and weight were examined in a randomized control trial conducted with city/county employees.

Results: Although the majority of participants in all three groups lost some weight, the phone group lost significantly more weight (4.

A Prospective Programmatic Cost Analysis of Fuel Your Life: A Worksite Translation of DPP.

Objective: An accounting of the resources necessary for implementation of efficacious programs is important for economic evaluations and dissemination.

Methods: A programmatic costs analysis was conducted prospectively in conjunction with an efficacy trial of Fuel Your Life (FYL), a worksite translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program. FYL was implemented through three different modalities, Group, Phone, and Self-study, using a micro-costing approach from both the employer and societal perspectives.

Sociotechnical attributes of safe and unsafe work systems.

Unlabelled: Theoretical and practical approaches to safety based on sociotechnical systems principles place heavy emphasis on the intersections between social-organisational and technical-work process factors. Within this perspective, work system design emphasises factors such as the joint optimisation of social and technical processes, a focus on reliable human-system performance and safety metrics as design and analysis criteria, the maintenance of a realistic and consistent set of safety objectives and policies, and regular access to the expertise and input of workers. We discuss three current approaches to the analysis and design of complex sociotechnical systems: human-systems integration, macroergonomics and safety climate.

FUEL Your Life: A Translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program to Worksites.

Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of FUEL Your Life, a translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program for worksites.

Design: A randomized control group design was conducted in five worksites of a large transportation company. Measures were collected pretest, posttest (6 months), and follow-up (12 months).

Typing performance and body discomfort among overweight and obese office workers: A pilot study of keyboard modification.

Obesity in the workplace is associated with loss of productivity, high medical care expenses, and increased rates of work-related injuries and illness. Thus, effective, low-cost interventions are needed to accommodate the size of today's obese office worker while alleviating potential physical harm associated with musculoskeletal disorders. Utilizing a sample of 22 overweight and obese office workers, this pilot study assessed the impact of introducing an alternative, more ergonomically-sound keyboard on perceptions about design, acceptability, and usability; self-reported body discomfort; and typing productivity.