Safety Management
How are we keeping patients, employees and physicians safe everyday?
Safety management involves communicating, making visual, improving, and spreading safety consistently across the entire organization.
Concepts
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Have patients, employees and physicians been safe in the past?
- Are our clinical systems and processes reliable?
- Are patients, employees and physicians safe today?
- Will patients, employees and physicians be safe in the future?
- Are we responding and improving?
Tools & Practices
- Hazard/risk identification and control
- Training and communication
- Safety Talks and Alerts
- Audit
- Reporting and response
- Safety rounding
- Process review boards
- Leader Standard Work with a safety focus (management/leadership)