[Organization and implementation of occupational health and safety in child day care centers].

ABSTRACT:

Background and research question

Physical and mental stress as well as infection hazards of employees in child day care centers require compliance with governmental occupational health and safety (OHS) regulations. How well OHS is organized and how measures are actually implemented are not yet empirically known. This gap was closed with an epidemiological study on the status quo.

Material and methods

In the second half of 2020 a total of 120 managers of day care centers in Germany, mostly church-run, which are member companies of the German Statutory Accident Insurance and Prevention in the Health and Welfare Services (BGW), were randomly selected and interviewed. This was done by members of the BGW prevention services using a standardized survey instrument. The surveyed asp

SUBMITTER: Michaelis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8815014 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature