Suchergebnisse

Communication equipment must be usable at accident sites even in an extremely cold environment. The aim was to evaluate the effect of three different glove types on the use of different TETRA phones, and on finger dexterity in the cold (-20 °C). A VAS and SUS methods were used to evaluate the usability features of the phones. Finger dexterity tests in the cold were carried out to evaluate the effect of gloves on manual performance. Results showed that the type and material of the glove affected the usability features of the phones such as the use of push-buttons and tangent buttons, changing communication group, overall handling, and the compatibility of phone with the glove (p<0.05). KEYWORDS: TETRA phone, Gloves, Cold, Dexterity, Usability.

Työpaikkaselvitys on työterveyshuollon ja työpaikan yhteistyön lähtökohta ja osa työpaikan työsuojelutoimintaa. Työpaikkaselvityksessä työterveyshuolto arvioi toistuvin työpaikkakäynnein työhön, työympäristöön ja työyhteisöön liittyvien terveysvaarojen, kuormitustekijöiden ja voimavaratekijöiden terveydellistä merkitystä ja merkitystä työkyvylle. Muuttunut työelämä ja digitalisaatio ovat kuitenkin lisänneet työn monimuotoisuutta ja työtä tehdään yhä enemmän virtuaalisissa työyhteisöissä. Siksi digitalisoitu työpaikkaselvitys on yleistynyt työterveyspalveluissa.
Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli tuottaa tietoa työterveyshuollon digitalisoidusta työpaikkaselvityksestä. Tutkimus tehtiin laadullisena tutkimuksena elo-syyskuussa 2019. Tutkittavat (n = 18) olivat työterveysammattilaisia, jotka työskentelivät kahdeksalla eri työterveyshuollon palveluntuottajalla. Aineisto kerättiin ryhmähaastatteluina (n = 8), joiden teemat liittyivät työterveyshuollon työpaikkaselvitysprosessin eri vaiheisiin. Aineisto analysoitiin sisällönanalyysimenetelmällä.
Haastattelujen mukaan digitalisoitu työpaikkaselvitys sisälsi yleisimmin esihenkilöille ja työntekijöille kohdennetun sähköisen kyselyn työn vaara- ja kuormitustekijöistä sekä digitaalisen alustan työterveyshuollon ja työpaikan yhteiseen dokumenttien hallintaan ja yhteydenpitoon. Kehitystarpeina mainittiin sähköisten kyselyjen yhtenäistäminen sekä mahdollisuus hyödyntää aiempia työpaikkaselvitysraportteja. Lisäksi työpaikkaselvitysraportit pitäisi pystyä näyttämään työpaikoille visuaalisemmassa muodossa.
Digitalisoitu työpaikkaselvitys on useimmiten sähköinen kyselylomake. Vaikka teknologian käytössä on tapahtunut pientä edistystä, on välttämätöntä jatkaa työpaikkaselvitysprosessin digitaalista kehittämistä. Teknologia mahdollistaa työn reaaliaikaisen havainnoinnin, jopa niillä työpaikoilla, joissa työterveyshuollon ammattilaiset eivät voi käydä fyysisesti paikalla.

Occupational health (OH) service providers, together with their client organizations co-operate in promoting health and work ability. Alongside with the so-called traditional services, more and more digital services are offered by OH service providers. However, little is known how the employer customers experience and use digital OH services.
This study evaluates the types of digital OH services employer customers use and how they assess the usefulness and ease of use of these digital services. Furthermore, the aim is to find out factors associated the usefulness and ease of use. To determine these features of usefulness and ease of use of digital services the Technology Acceptance Model was utilized. A cross-sectional, electronic survey was carried out to the members of human resources (HR) and entrepreneur associations between December 2022 and January 2023. The survey was in Finnish. The research material consisted of the employer customers' answers to the multiple-choice questions of the use, usefulness and ease of use of digital OH services. The data was analyzed by quantitative statistical analysis.
A total of 455 respondents took part in the study, comprising 198 representatives of HR professionals and 257 entrepreneurs. Most of the respondents were women (65%) and over 50 years old (61%). HR professionals rated their information and communications technology skills significantly more often good or really good compared to the entrepreneurs, being 92 % and 62 %, respectively. The most frequently utilized digital OH services were the ability to update personnel's information in the OH patient registry (48.0%) and remote action plan negotiations (37.1%). Less than one-third of the respondents (29.9%) took part in remote work ability negotiations, while approximately one-fifth (20.8%) participated in remote workplace surveys. In general, the HR professionals used digital OH services more frequently and estimate the usefulness and the use of digital OH services more positively compared to the entrepreneurs (p<0.05).
The study produced new information of the use and experiences of using digital OH services among the employer customers. The findings can be used to optimize the delivery and effectiveness of digital OH services for all employer customers, especially for the entrepreneurs who seemed be less used to utilize digital services.

Abstract
Background
In occupational health care, telehealth services implementation requires the professionals to change their way of working because they have had to incorporate the telehealth services into their daily routines. Understanding how occupational health professionals relate to and experience telehealth services may aid in its implementation. However, an overview of telehealth services' use in occupational health care is lacking. The aim of this study was to provide insight into the telehealth services that are used in occupational health care and identify their factors related to occupational health professionals' perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use.

Methods
The present cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in May-June 2022 in Finland. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) was run to test the relationships between demographic variables and the rate of usefulness, and ease of use variables. Scheffe test was used to make comparisons among group means in an analysis of variance (ANOVA) experiment.

Results
According to the results that investigated the ease of use of telehealth services, the respondents mostly felt that using telehealth services was easy and easy to learn. Profession, work experience, and information and communication technology skills were determinants related to perceived usefulness of telehealth services, while profession and information and communication technology skills were related to perceived ease of use, respectively.

Conclusions
In this survey, quite a fair agreement was found among occupational health professionals regarding the perceived usefulness and ease of use of telehealth services. However, the study results suggest that occupational telehealth services are most likely to be useful and easy to use when professionals' information and communication technology skills are at a good level.