Identification of competencies for Malaysian occupational safety and health professionals

Industrial Health

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 824-834

  Daud, Rabaayah ^a   Ismail, Maimunah ^b   Omar, Zoharah ^b  

^a Ministry of Human Resources   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Competencies; Delphi technique; Malaysia; Occupational safety and health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DELPHI STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALAYSIA; MALE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; SELF CONCEPT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION; DATA COLLECTION; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78650602330     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1115     Document Type: Article

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