Translating into Practice the Recommendations of a Safety Climate Theory-Based Evaluation of Services Provided by Disability Support Workers

A follow‐up evaluation of the health, wellbeing, and safety outcomes of implemented psychosocial safety interventions for disability support workers

“…Intervention maturity after Study 2 ranged from organisation-wide implementation to remaining at a conceptual stage (due to resource constraints and limited time). Nonetheless, the postintervention findings showed favourable trends compared to the Study 1 DSW sample surveyed 2 years previously (Harries, Ford, & Kirby, 2018;Kirby et al, 2015).…”

“…check for DSWs who had experienced a safety incident). Team building was the focus of the remaining three interventions and involved: (1) Psychological testing in recruitment (i.e., to recruit DSWs with the required job skills, emotional capacity, and personal characteristics to develop effective DSW teams); (2) Localised staff replacement teams (i.e., to ensure replacement DSWs deployed to worksites have the necessary expertise and are known to co-workers and clients); and (3) Teamwork training programs (i.e., to develop the social capital and team effectiveness and reduce conflict between DSWs) (Harries, Ford, & Kirby, 2018;Kirby et al, 2015). Intervention maturity: 1 = Conceptual process (concept identified; development required before trialling); 2 = Basic process (work-unit level trials; refinement required); 3 = Standardised process (process developed; ready for integration as an organisation-wide methodology); 4 = Managed process (detailed process; implemented across organisation; output measures being collected); 5 = Optimised process (organisation-wide process; enabled by collecting quantitative feedback and innovation to refine to achieve best practice).…”

“…maturity (see Harries, Ford, & Kirby, 2018;Kirby et al, 2015 for more details). Intervention maturity after Study 2 ranged from organisation-wide implementation to remaining at a conceptual stage (due to resource constraints and limited time).…”