Table 2 Safety climate factors and % responses to items.
Disagree strongly* | Disagree slightly* | Neutral* | Agree slightly* | Agree strongly* | Not applicable† | |
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Safety climate factor 1: Attitudes to safety within own team; capacity to learn from errors (Cronbach's α = 0.73) | ||||||
I am encouraged by my colleagues to report any patient safety concerns I may have | 1 | 4 | 7 | 28 | 60 | 1 |
The culture where I work makes it easy to learn from the errors of others | 4 | 7 | 21 | 35 | 32 | 3 |
I receive appropriate feedback about my performance | 8 | 13 | 17 | 34 | 28 | 1 |
Medical errors are handled appropriately here | 1 | 4 | 18 | 27 | 50 | 5 |
I know the proper channels to which I should direct questions regarding patient safety | 1 | 4 | 6 | 30 | 59 | 1 |
Safety climate factor 2: Overall confidence in safety of organisation (Cronbach's α = 0.70) | ||||||
The levels of staffing where I work are sufficient to handle the number of patients | 22 | 23 | 11 | 25 | 19 | 2 |
I would feel safe being treated as a patient in this service | 5 | 10 | 11 | 27 | 47 | 1 |
Management does not knowingly compromise the safety of patients | 6 | 6 | 14 | 22 | 51 | 2 |
Safety climate factor 3: Perceptions of management's attitudes to safety (Cronbach's α = 0.78) | ||||||
This organisation is doing more for patient safety now than it did one year ago | 4 | 5 | 36 | 28 | 27 | 5 |
Leadership is driving us to be a safety centred organisation | 4 | 7 | 32 | 34 | 23 | 3 |
My suggestions about safety would be acted upon if I expressed them to management | 5 | 6 | 16 | 38 | 35 | 2 |
*Percentage of valid responses (not including “not applicable”) from direct patient care staff.
†Percentage of total responses from direct patient care staff.