@article{ref1,
title="Education of staff--a key factor for a safe environment in day care",
journal="Acta paediatrica",
year="2000",
author="Sellström, E. and Bremberg, Sven",
volume="89",
number="5",
pages="601-607",
abstract="In order to create a safe environment in day-care settings, an understanding of factors within the organization of day care, factors which influence safety, is essential. Day-care directors in 83 daycare centres completed a mail-in survey that contained questions about professional experience, the day-care centre's organization of child safety measures and a battery of questions designed to evaluate the directors' perceptions and beliefs about child safety. The day-care directors also carried out a safety inspection at their centre. The results were analysed using the multivariate logistic regression technique. The existence of a continuing plan for continued staff education in child safety was shown to be the strongest predictor of few safety hazards in day-care centres. The day-care directors' perceptions and beliefs about injury prevention were of less importance. This study indicates that in order to promote safety in day-care settings, an on-going plan for continued staff education in child safety should be a matter of routine. The introduction of such a plan should be the concern of the individual day-care directors, policy-makers and managers at the local and national level, and health professionals working in this field.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0803-5253",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}