Safety culture across cultures.

Patrick L Yorio; Jason Edwards; Dick Hoeneveld

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Safety culture across cultures.

January 8, 2020

Yorio PL, Edwards J, Hoeneveld D. Safety Sci. 2019;120:402-410.

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This paper discusses the relationship between national culture and safety culture, and how national culture influences an individual’s organizational beliefs, assumptions and values related to safety and then how those influence worker perception. The authors provide practical suggestions and directions for future research on organizational patient safety culture.

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