Prevention of occupational injuries and accidents: A social capital perspective

Abstract

Prior research has consistently established the pragmatic nature of literature regarding occupational injuries and accidental happenings faced by nursing professionals. However, current realities require a subjective approach to identify preventative measures that could influence occupational health and safety in healthcare sectors. A qualitative design followed a descriptive approach to assess unbiased opinions towards occupational obstructions that lead to accidental happenings. This study used the social capital framework in particular as a support resource to eliminate its detrimental effects on nurse's capacity to serve their patients. The findings extended the fundamental understanding of social capital from social ties to workplace and personal ties as potential mechanisms of support. Healthcare organizations need to redefine their control policies to provide the ultimate support to their care agents. A social capital model offers nursing practitioners and nursing managers an approach for building evidence-based policies with implications for nurse's safety, education and training.

Service Innovation in Human Resource Management During COVID-19: A Study to Enhance Employee Loyalty Using Intrinsic Rewards

“…As discussed earlier, due to COVID-19, the environment is evolving swiftly, and health organizations must bring creativity to their human capital framework. This pandemic situation will ultimately help sustain its critical workers (Hafeez et al, 2020).…”

A Conceptual Model of Nurses’ Workplace Social Capital: A Theory Synthesis

“…Meanwhile, they have the willingness to improve their professional capabilities [38], mentor/be mentored at work [40] and adopt evidence-based practices [7]. Finally, workplace social capital is described by nurses as a major strategy for prevention of occupational injuries and accidents [3]. However, workplace social capital is also reported to result in social exclusion; strong bonding among the nursing staff can create strong relational ties that may in uence their acceptability of newcomers [41,42].…”

“…Research portends the positive and promising in uences of nurses' workplace social capital [3,4]. The value of ndings from single studies is nil if the knowledge gained is not integrated into a network to present a more comprehensive understanding of the reported phenomenon [5,6].…”

Organizational resilience process: integrated model of safety culture

“…A body of literature has emerged in the field of occupational injuries and accidents, particularly in response to the measures of safety at workplace (Carpenter, 2017;Chang, Yang & Lauricella, 2019;Dutra, Cimiotti & de Brito Guirardello, 2018;Hafeez, Abdullah, Riaz & Shafique, 2020;Tan, Wang, Chen and Ren, 2012;Read, 2014;Taufek, Zulkifle & Kadir, 2016;Yeh, 2017). Workplace fatality rate has reached at a frightening point, where 2.3 million causalities and 1.9 million severe injuries (Pereira, Ahn, Han & Abourizk, 2020) showing an increasing trend.…”

“…This geographical division has been providing limited opportunities and facilities to nursing professionals (resource allocation, insurance claims, safety standards, safety parameters, awareness workshops, personal safety training and development) that comes up with adverse circumstances (occupational injuries and frequency of accidents). A very little attention has been given to this profession is getting in terms of safety issues from sociologist, organizational psychologist and health-care practitioners (Hafeez et al, 2020). In provision to existing gaps of literature and practical issues, current study is particularly contributing to the emergent knowledge of safety culture to understand the corrective measures for occupational injuries in nursing.…”