Background: There are many hazards in the hairdressing industry that may result in illness or injury for both workers and clients, with new or inexperienced apprentices being at greater risk. Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible effects of an interventional education program for hairdressing employees. Results:The findings revealed a significant improvement in most items especially for environment of salons, use of personal instruments, waste disposal, safety and healthy behaviors of hairdressers (P < 0.05). No significant difference was found for the items of washing systems (P = 0.725), and doors and windows condition (P = 0.267) before and after the intervention. When comparing behaviors between women and men salons, all items significantly improved in women. Men did not show significant improvement in items of hand washing (P = 0.265), use of garment (P = 0.21), and disinfection (P = 1.00) and sterilization procedures (P = 1.00). Conclusions:The intervention was successful in improving most aspects of hairdressing. In women, safety and healthy behaviors were affected more than men. However, in men salons, environmental and physical conditions had greater improvement. We suggest that health educational programs for hairdressers should be integrated into their training course.

Background: The staff performance in health care system is related to their satisfaction. The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between the work-family conflict and the job satisfaction of medical staff after implementing the health system development plan (HSDP). Methods: Amongst the 350 staff of Damghan Vellayat hospital, 150 of them have been selected in 2016 by random sampling. Two questionnaires, "staff satisfaction" and "work-family conflict", have been used as the data gathering tool after implementing the HSDP. Results: A total of 48.8% of the respondents were female and 52% of them were male and had a mean age of 34.5. The relationship between staff satisfaction and job dimensions has been determined significantly by Pearson correlation coefficient (r = 0.463, P = 0.000). In addition, the relationship between staff satisfaction and conflict with family were significant (r = 0.245, P = 0.000). The difference between men and women in job improvement and job (P = 0.027) stress factors were significant (P = 0.07). Among all the men, 95.4% of them have gotten more than 50 scores (this indicates the job importance in comparison to family life). Therefore, the job importance in comparison to family life is more in the male staff. Conclusions: According to the findings, gender, job category, lack of sufficient educations, and the physical place as well as job dimensions have a direct relationship with job satisfaction and its conflict with family and work relation after implementing the health system development plan.

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