PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Espen Olsen
AU  - Karina Aase
TI  - A comparative study of safety climate differences in healthcare and the petroleum industry
AID  - 10.1136/qshc.2009.036558
DP  - 2010 Oct 01
TA  - Quality and Safety in Health Care
PG  - i75--i79
VI  - 19
IP  - Suppl 3
4099  - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/19/Suppl_3/i75.short
4100  - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/19/Suppl_3/i75.full
SO  - Qual Saf Health Care2010 Oct 01; 19
AB  - Aim The aim of this article is to compare safety climate in healthcare and the petroleum industry by collecting empirical evidence of differences between the two sectors.Methods The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) is used to measure the safety climate in two organisations operating in the two different sectors: (1) a large Norwegian university hospital offering a wide range of hospital services and (2) a large Norwegian petroleum company producing oil and gas worldwide.Results and discussion Statistical analyses supported the expected hypotheses that safety climate is positively related to outcome measures and that the level on safety climate and outcome measures are generally higher in the petroleum sector. Empirical findings indicate that healthcare should learn from the petroleum industry regarding safety improvement efforts, and the implication of this is discussed in the paper.