Studies of safety climate in construction revealed a significant positive association between safety climate and various aspects of occupational health and safety. The mechanisms through which this impact operates are still unclear and safety climate is usually studied without considering the complexity of this industry (companies, worksites and groups). The aim of this research is to analyze to what extend there are differences between construction sites and to explore the relations between construction sites' safety climate and workers' safety response and to examine how this influence occur considering the workgroups. The safety climate was evaluated using a reduced version of the questionnaire that is a part of Battery HERC (Herramienta para evaluacion riesgos comportamentales). The data were collected in a Portuguese construction company (5 construction sites; including sub-contractors) comprising 213 workers. Differences between construction sites safety climate were found, suggesting the prevalence of safety sub-climates. The workgroup safety climate played a determinant role on workers' safety response in subcontracted workgroups and it is an important mechanism through which the principal contractor can influence subcontractors' safety response. Designers of prevention and training programs for accidents prevention should include specific contents in order to improve supervisory safety leadership and workgroup safety responses.
Hospitais são fundamentais para a sociedade devido à sua função socioeconômica e, principalmente, por promover a saúde em todos os sentidos. Mas possuem várias carências de gestão administrativa e qualidade com maior valor agregado, entre outras. Um dos temas que tem se sobressaído na dinâmica da gestão empresarial e que busca agregar valor e vantagens competitivas sustentáveis é a logística, porém esta é uma área relativamente inexplorada. Nesse contexto, o objetivo do estudo é identificar o estágio da logística e seu arranjo organizacional em uma organização hospitalar. Para tanto, utilizou-se uma abordagem qualitativa-exploratória, seguida de revisão de literatura, que visa a estruturação do conhecimento da logística, e estudo de caso. A coleta de dados foi realizada por pesquisa documental e entrevistas semiestruturadas. Os resultados permitiram apurar modificações na estrutura organizacional do hospital, contemplando a logística, e identificar que a instituição encontra-se no estágio 2, além de ressaltar as barreiras e os facilitadores do processo de adaptação.
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