Factors Promoting Collaboration between Occupational Health Nurse and Safety and Health Clerk

―From the Viewpoint of Occupational Health Nurse―

Abstract

【Objective】The objective of this study was to investigate the factors promoting collaboration between occupational health nurse and safety/ health clerk. 【Methods】We mailed a self-administered questionnaire to 611 occupational health nurses and received responses from 254(41.6%), and 243 responses were analyzed. We conducted multiple linear regression analysis by step wise method. Collaboration between occupational health nurse and safety/health clerk was a dependent variable and 29 predictors were independent variables.【Results・Discussion】We found seven factors including “Clarification of outcomes” “Eagerness of safety/health clerk to collaboration” “Existence of place offering and collecting information“. Adjusted decision coefficient (R²) was 0.540. Occupational health nurse and safety/health clerk would gain an agreement of a sense of values for their activities by evaluating each activity together and making the product clear each other,, and they would be led to recognition of the necessity of collaboration. Therefore we thought that “Clarification of outcomes” was extracted as the most powerful factor.