Titel Deelnemers "Korte inhoud" "Behavioral integrity for safety, priority of safety, psychological safety, and patient safety: A team-level study" "Hannes Leroy, Luc Sels" "This article clarifies how leader behavioral integrity for safety helps solve follower's double bind between adhering to safety protocols and speaking up about mistakes against protocols. Path modeling of survey data in 54 nursing teams showed that head nurse behavioral integrity for safety positively relates to both team priority of safety and psychological safety. In turn, team priority of safety and team psychological safety were, respectively, negatively and positively related with the number of treatment errors that were reported to head nurses. We further demonstrated an interaction effect between team priority of safety and psychological safety on reported errors such that the relationship between team priority of safety and the number of errors was stronger for higher levels of team psychological safety. Finally, we showed that both team priority of safety and team psychological safety mediated the relationship between leader behavioral integrity for safety and reported treatment errors. These results suggest that although adhering to safety protocols and admitting mistakes against those protocols show opposite relations to reported treatment errors, both are important to improving patient safety and both are fostered by leaders who walk their safety talk." "Interplay between food safety climate, food safety management system and microbiological hygiene and safety: illustrated in farm butcheries and affiliated butcher shops" "Elien De Boeck, Michiel Bollaerts, Peter Vlerick" "Quantified Cycling Safety: Towards a Mobile Sensing Platform to Understand Perceived Safety of Cyclists" "Andrii Matviienko, Florian HELLER, Bastian Pfleging" "Today’s level of cyclists’ road safety is primarily estimated using accident reports and self-reported measures. However, the former is focused on post-accident situations and the latter relies on subjective input. In our work, we aim to extend the landscape of cyclists’ safety assessment methods via a two-dimensional taxonomy, which covers data source (internal/external) and type of measurement (objective/subjective). Based on this taxonomy, we classify existing methods and present a mobile sensing concept for quantified cycling safety that fills the identified methodological gap by collecting data about body movements and physiological data. Finally, we outline a list of use cases and future research directions within the scope of the proposed taxonomy and sensing concept." "'Safety: everybody’s concern, everybody’s duty?' Questioning the significance of 'active citizenship' and 'social cohesion' for people's perception of safety" "Evelien Van den Herrewegen" "Social Capital and Feelings of Unsafety in Later Life: A Study on the Influence of Social Networks, Place Attachment, and Civic Participation on Perceived Safety in Belgium" "Sarah Dury" ... "Principle-based recommendations for big data and machine learning in food safety: the P-SAFETY model" "Anton Vedder" "Big data and Machine learning Techniques are reshaping the way in which food safety risk assessment is conducted. The ongoing ‘datafication’ of food safety risk assessment activities and the progressive deployment of probabilistic models in their practices requires a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of these advances. In particular, the low level of trust in EU food safety risk assessment framework highlighted in 2019 by an EU-funded survey could be exacerbated by novel methods of analysis. The variety of processed data raises unique questions regarding the interplay of multiple regulatory systems alongside food safety legislation. Provisions aiming to preserve the confidentiality of data and protect personal information are juxtaposed to norms prescribing the public disclosure of scientific information. This research is intended to provide guidance for data governance and data ownership issues that unfold from the ongoing transformation of the technical and legal domains of food safety risk assessment. Following the reconstruction of technological advances in data collection and analysis and the description of recent amendments to food safety legislation, emerging concerns are discussed in light of the individual, collective and social implications of the deployment of cutting-edge Big Data collection and analysis techniques. Then, a set of principle-based recommendations is proposed by adapting high-level principles enshrined in institutional documents about Artificial Intelligence to the realm of food safety risk assessment. The proposed set of recommendations adopts Safety, Accountability, Fairness, Explainability, Transparency as core principles (SAFETY), whereas Privacy and data protection are used as a meta-principle." "'Better safe than sorry, but, you know, don't overdo it' responsabilization and fatalism in perception of safety" "Evelien Van den Herrewegen" "The slogan U+2018Better Safe than Sorry, But You Know, DonU+2019t Overdo ItU+2019 is inspired by a column written by Melissa Summers about U+2018National Baby Safety MonthU+2019 (2007). In a cynical but funny manner Summers criticises the industry that, in order to sell some outlandish safety devices, preys on one of parentsU+2019 biggest fears: a preventable accident hurting their baby. Summers does not ridicule their fear, but urges parents not to get terrorised by these messages, and instead to set out some practical ground rules to protect infants. Although this article is not focused on U+2018baby safetyU+2019, I will show that people use the same slogan in dealing with crime. While acknowledging that people are (more) aware of crime, and take precautions, I will note that this awareness and this behaviour does not necessarily have a dramatic impact on peopleU+2019s daily lives, nor are they to be interpreted as signals for a problematic perception of safety. Parallel to the conclusions of an Australian study by Deborah Lupton (2000), my own research findings in a Flemish neighbourhood raise some strong reservations to the current theoretical assumption that people nowadays are caught up in a U+2018Culture of FearU+2019 (Furedi, 2006) or victims of a U+2018Culture of ControlU+2019 (Garland, 2001), and that U+2018fear of crimeU+2019 functions as a way to project (Hollway & Jefferson, 1997) or to express (Jackson, 2004) late modern ambiguous anxieties. In the conclusion I will discuss the relevance of this interpretative research for surveillance studies." "In safe hands: Attachment figures' safety properties and the link with attachment style" "Eline Camerman, Sara Scheveneels, Guy Bosmans" "According to the Learning Theory of Attachment, naturalistic learning experiences about others' responsiveness during distress are an underlying mechanism in the development of attachment. Previous studies have demonstrated attachment figures' unique safety-inducing effects in highly controlled conditioning procedures. Yet, neither have studies examined the presumed influence of safety learning on state attachment, nor have they examined how attachment figures' safety-inducing effects relate to attachment styles. To address these gaps, a differential fear conditioning paradigm was used in which pictures of participants' attachment figure and two control stimuli served as safety cues (CS-). US-expectancy and distress ratings were measured as indicators of fear responding. Results indicate that attachment figures evoked enhanced safety responding compared to control safety cues at the start of acquisition, which was maintained throughout acquisition and when presented together with a danger cue. Attachment figures' safety-inducing effects were reduced in individuals with higher attachment avoidance, although attachment style did not affect the rate of new safety learning. Finally, safe experiences with the attachment figure in the fear conditioning procedure resulted in diminished anxious state attachment. Adding to previous work, these findings underscore the importance of learning processes for attachment development and attachment figures' provision of safety." "Prospective clinical evaluation of the POLYPERF® Safe, a safety Huber needle, in cancer patients" "Lieve Goossens, Philip Moons, Marguerite Stas" "PURPOSE: Evaluation of the Polyperf® Safe (PPS) needle on safety and user-friendliness, as experienced by first-time and non-first-time users of the device. METHODS: A prospective, descriptive study was carried out at the University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. Five hundred PPS needles were individually evaluated in cancer patients. Different aspects of the PPS were assessed: packaging, needle insertion, and needle removal. Nurses were asked whether they had previously inserted or removed this type of needle. We compared the PPS needle with the standard Gripper® needle in terms of safety, ease of use, and ease of training. RESULTS: Three hundred sixty-six evaluation forms were available for analysis (73.2%). Packaging and access evaluations were scored positively, except for two aspects: (1) needle stability, and (2) ease of dressing. Ease of removal was scored unsatisfactory in up to 22.4% of the registrations. Pain at insertion was reported in about 20% registrations, and blood contact was reported by 2.5% of non-first-time users. Safety was scored as good, although ease of use and ease in training scored 25.4% and 43.8%, respectively, lower than the Gripper®. CONCLUSIONS: In general, nurses evaluated the PPS positively, with the exception of needle stability, ease of dressing, and ease of removal. No needlestick accidents were recorded. Aspects of ease of use and ease of training for PPS needles scored less than those for the Gripper® needles in up to one-third of the registrations." "The effect of the SAFE or SORRY? programme on patient safety knowledge of nurses in hospitals and nursing homes: A cluster randomised trial" "Theo van Achterberg" "BACKGROUND: Patients in hospitals and nursing homes are at risk for the development of often preventable adverse events. Guidelines for the prevention of many types of adverse events are available, however compliance with these guidelines appears to be lacking. As a result many patients do not receive appropriate care. We developed a patient safety program that allows organisations to implement multiple guidelines simultaneously and therefore facilitates guideline use to improve patient safety. This program was developed for three frequently occurring nursing care related adverse events: pressure ulcers, urinary tract infections and falls. For the implementation of this program we developed educational activities for nurses as a main implementation strategy. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study is to describe the effect of interactive and tailored education on the knowledge levels of nurses. DESIGN: A cluster randomised trial was conducted between September 2006 and July 2008. SETTINGS: Ten hospital wards and ten nursing home wards participated in this study. Prior to baseline, randomisation of the wards to an intervention or control group was stratified for centre and type of ward. PARTICIPANTS: All nurses from participating wards. METHODS: A knowledge test measured nurses' knowledge on the prevention of pressure ulcers, urinary tract infections and falls, during baseline en follow-up. The results were analysed for hospitals and nursing homes separately. RESULTS: After correction for baseline, the mean difference between the intervention and the control group on hospital nurses' knowledge on the prevention of the three adverse events was 0.19 points on a zero to ten scale (95% CI: -0.03 to 0.42), in favour of the intervention group. There was a statistically significant effect on knowledge of pressure ulcers, with an improved mean mark of 0.45 points (95% CI: 0.10-0.81). For the other two topics there was no statistically significant effect. Nursing home nurses' knowledge did neither improve (0 points, CI: -0.35 to 0.35) overall, nor for the separate subjects. CONCLUSION: The educational intervention improved hospital nurses' knowledge on the prevention of pressure ulcers only. More research on long term improvement of knowledge is needed."