The third panel consisted of employers working in the area including human resources professionals, occupational health and safety (OHS) professionals and those in managerial positions.
The other variables were measured using a written questionnaire addressed to the human resources or occupational health managers as representatives of the companies who should have the best overview of the relevant variables.
Although patient relations, human resources and occupational health representatives from S & W provided guidance and feedback in the development of the framework, direct input from patients and family representatives was not obtained.
More concretely, the authors observed that LMs were not always able to comply with HR guidelines in this area, because they were confronted with conflicting policy requirements, weaknesses in training, lack of support from relevant human resources and occupational health specialists and various work and budgetary pressures [ 33].
The program activities were implemented using an organization-level two-trainer model with trainers from the human resources management and occupational health services.
In the Belstress study, 98 disease events were registered by the human resources department and occupational health service.
In many countries, the TISS-28 scale is adopted as a golden means enabling a rational management of human resources, especially the occupational group of nurses.
Dulani Samaranayake MBBS, MSc, MD is a specialist in community medicine with a special interest in human resources for health and occupational health.
Participating employees, their supervisors, OH personnel, human resources management, as well as occupational safety and trade union representatives will be interviewed, and the feasibility of early part-time sick leave will be evaluated based on the qualitative information collected in the interviews.
The NWFQ was designed based on literature studies and focus group investigations with the workers' supervisors, human resource managers and occupational health professionals.
