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Kathryn Mearns
Researcher at University of Aberdeen
Publications - 80
Citations - 6763
Kathryn Mearns is an academic researcher from University of Aberdeen. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Occupational safety and health. The author has an hindex of 39, co-authored 79 publications receiving 6193 citations. Previous affiliations of Kathryn Mearns include University of Bergen.
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Safety climate, safety management practice and safety performance in offshore environments
TL;DR: In this paper, the associations between management practices and climate scores with official accident statistics and self-reported accident involvement were tested via a series of hypotheses, which indicated that safety management practices were associated with lower official accident rates and fewer respondents reporting accidents.
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Safety in shipping: the human element.
TL;DR: It is concluded that monitoring and modifying the human factors issues presented in this paper could contribute to maritime safety performance.
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Measuring safety climate in health care
TL;DR: More consideration should be given to psychometric factors in the design of healthcare safety climate instruments, especially as these are beginning to be used in large scale surveys across healthcare organisations.
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Assessing the state of organizational safety-culture or climate?
Kathryn Mearns,Rhona Flin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the concepts of safety culture and safety climate in an attempt to determine which is more useful for describing an organization's "state of safety" in terms of perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs about risk and safety.
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Measuring safety climate on offshore installations
TL;DR: The human and organizational factors affecting safety were examined on 10 offshore installations using the Offshore Safety Questionnaire as mentioned in this paper, which contained scales measuring work pressure and work clarity, job communication, safety behaviour, risk perception, satisfaction with safety measures and safety attitudes.