Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Hospital SOPS

The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture® (SOPS^®) Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for hospitals was designed for use with the core SOPS Hospital Survey to help hospitals assess the extent to which their organization's culture supports workplace safety for providers and staff. The 22 supplemental items may be added to the end of the Hospital Survey, just before the Background Questions.

Supplemental Item Set

• Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for the Hospital Survey—English (Word, 68 KB; PDF, 479 KB).
• Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for the Hospital Survey—Spanish (Word, 77 KB; PDF, 390 KB).

Learn more: New AHRQ SOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Hospitals webcast—December 16, 2021

Topics Covered by the Workplace Safety Item Set

The Hospital Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set addresses the following topic areas:

• Protection From Workplace Hazards (3 items).
• Moving, Transferring, or Lifting Patients (3 items).
• Addressing Workplace Aggression From Patients or Visitors (2 items).
• Workplace Aggression Policies, Procedures, and Training (2 items).
• Addressing Verbal Aggression From Providers or Staff (1 item).
• Supervisor, Manager, or Clinical Leader Support for Workplace Safety (3 items).
• Hospital Management Support for Workplace Safety (3 items).
• Workplace Safety and Reporting (1 item).
• Work Stress/Burnout (1 item).*
• Overall Rating on Workplace Safety for Providers and Staff (1 item).
• Background Questions (2 items).

_{* The Work Stress/Burnout item was adapted from Dr. Mark Linzer's Mini-Z 2.0 survey tool (https://www.professionalworklife.com/mini-z-survey).}

Workplace Safety Results

• 2022 Updated Results for the AHRQ SOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Hospitals (PDF, 927 KB); Appendix C (PDF, 553 KB)—Updated results for the Hospital Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set that includes data submitted to the 2022 Hospital Database for a total of 40 hospitals and more than 11,000 individual survey respondents. The report consists of a narrative description of the findings and appendixes, presenting data by respondent characteristics for the database hospitals
• Pilot Study Results From the AHRQ SOPS Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set for Hospitals (PDF, 543 KB)—Pilot study results for the Hospital Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set. The supplemental item set for this report displays results of 28 hospitals with more than 7,000 respondents in May–June 2021.

Resource List

This document contains references to websites that provide practical resources hospitals can use to implement changes to improve the culture of workplace safety in their organizations.

• Improving Workplace Safety in Hospitals: A Resource List for Users of the AHRQ Workplace Safety Supplemental Item Set (PDF, 227 KB).