目标:工作场所健康与安全(WHS)是雇主和雇员的重要责任,在考虑所有利益相关者的观点时最有效。本研究旨在从城市消防员的角度探讨自愿工作场所肺功能监测计划的促进者和障碍,并描述他们对其价值的看法。
方法:使用定性,描述性方法论,参加纵向肺功能监测研究的消防员被邀请参加半结构化访谈。有目的的,使用最大变异采样来实现被邀请参加的消防员的多样性。我们使用归纳内容分析来识别主题。
结果:对15名消防员的访谈确定了3个主要主题:(i)监视的实践经验(管理,通信,职场文化变革,便利性,可接受性,和上诉);(Ii)监测的价值(肺部健康疗效和控制,社会支持,工作场所管理支持/动机,对全球消防员健康的贡献);和(iii)监测对健康的贡献(职业风险,在全面健康的背景下,可加工性,以及健身和未来价值)。
结论:确定了在消防服务中提供肺功能监测的实践和社会心理促进因素和障碍。除了检测肺部不良健康并允许医疗干预的个人利益之外,已知对消防员工作场所福祉有积极影响的因素,比如提供内心的平静,对良好工作实践的反馈,利用控制措施的动机,管理对健康的承诺,并提供数据以协助全面知识是纵向肺功能监测的重要方面。
Workplace health and safety (WHS) is an important responsibility falling on both employers and employees and is most effective when the perspectives of all stakeholders are considered. This study aimed to explore the facilitators and barriers to a voluntary workplace lung function surveillance program from the perspective of urban firefighters and describe their perceptions of its value.
Using a qualitative, descriptive methodology, firefighters who had participated in a longitudinal lung function surveillance study were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Purposeful, maximum variation sampling was used to achieve diversity in those firefighters invited to participate. We used inductive content analysis to identify themes.
Interviews with 15 firefighters identified 3 main themes: (i) practical experience of surveillance (administration, communication, workplace culture change, convenience, acceptability, and appeal); (ii) value of surveillance (lung health efficacy and control, social support, workplace management support/motivations, contribution to global firefighter health); and (iii) contribution of surveillance to health (occupational risk, relevance in the context of total health, workability, and fitness and future value).
Practical and psychosocial facilitators and barriers to providing lung function surveillance in the fire service were identified. In addition to the personal benefits of detecting adverse lung health and allowing for medical intervention, factors known to positively influence firefighter workplace wellbeing, such as providing peace of mind, feedback on good work practices, motivation to utilize control measures, management commitment to health, and providing data to assist with global knowledge were valued aspects of longitudinal lung function surveillance.