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Building a safety culture for infection prevention and control adherence at Howard Springs: A workplace survey.
Curtis, Stephanie J; Trewin, Abigail; McCormack, Luke M; Were, Karen; McDermott, Kathleen; Walsh, Nick.
  • Curtis SJ; National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia. Electronic address: stephanie.curtis@nt.gov.au.
  • Trewin A; National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia.
  • McCormack LM; National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia; Response Psychological Services, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia.
  • Were K; National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia.
  • McDermott K; National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia.
  • Walsh N; National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0810, Australia.
Infect Dis Health ; 2022 Sep 17.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2240026
ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

Building a safety culture is essential to facilitate infection prevention and control (IPC) adherence in workplaces. We aimed to explore perceptions, barriers and facilitators to IPC procedures by the Australian Medical Assistance Team (AUSMAT) at Howard Springs International Quarantine Facility (HSIQF).

METHODS:

We performed a descriptive analysis of a cross-sectional survey administered to the AUSMAT employed at HSQIF from October 2020 to April 2021. We described motivation, training and compliance to IPC adherence and Likert scales described the level of agreement to the success of IPC procedures across the domains of communication, risk, trust, safety and environment, from the individual, team and organisational perspective.

RESULTS:

There were 101 participants (response rate 59%, 101/170) and 70% (71/101) were clinical. There was strong agreement to the success of IPC procedures, with a median 4 (agree) or 5 (strongly agree) across each domain and perspective of the 67 Likert items. Clinical staff reported slightly higher agreement than non-clinical staff across Likert items. To improve IPC compliance, most reported that daily training should be provided (77/97, 79%) and daily training was very or extremely effective (91/97, 93%). Participants were motivated by protecting self, friends, family and the community rather than workplace pressures. Barriers to IPC compliance were the ambient environment and fatigue.

CONCLUSIONS:

A safety culture was successfully built at HSQIF to optimise IPC adherence whilst managing multiple hazards including prevention of COVID-19 transmission. Strategies implemented by AUSMAT at the quarantine facility may inform the development of safety culture in other settings.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study / Randomized controlled trials Language: English Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study / Randomized controlled trials Language: English Year: 2022 Document Type: Article