Ercan, AydanKiziltan, Gul2023-12-052023-12-0520142165-0799http://hdl.handle.net/11727/10982This study was designed to identify the practices and knowledge of food handlers about workplace safety in hospital kitchens (four on-premises and eight off-premises) in Istanbul. A kitchen safety knowledge questionnaire was administered and a kitchen safety checklist was completed by dietitians. The mean total scores of the on-premise and off-premise hospital kitchens were 32.7 +/- 8.73 and 37.0 +/- 9.87, respectively. The mean scores for the items about machinery tools, electricity, gas, and fire were lower in off-premise than on-premise hospital kitchen workers. The kitchen safety knowledge questionnaire had five subsections; 43.7% of the food handlers achieved a perfect score. Significant differences were found in the knowledge of food handlers working in both settings about preventing slips and falls (p<.05). Significant relationships were found between marital status, education level, and kitchen safety knowledge of the food handlers (p<.05).enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessOCCUPATIONAL-HEALTHWORKPLACE SAFETYACCIDENTSPERCEPTIONSPERSPECTIVEDATABASEHYGIENESYSTEMSGENDERarticle62104154200003486371000042-s2.0-84909644205