A New Approach in Safety Culture: Safety Coaching

New approach to ensure safety-first culture.

Barb Farlow wishes she had asked more questions about her daughter Annie’s care. Born with the chromosome disorder Trisomy 13, Annie was only a few months old when she died in hospital of what her parents believe may have been a treatable respiratory condition. Months after Annie’s death, they learned that a doctor had placed a “do not resuscitate” order on her chart without their consent, and ...

Safety paradoxes and safety culture

This paper deals with four safety paradoxes: (1) Safety is defined and measured more by its absence than its presence. (2) Defences, barriers and safeguards not only protect a system, they can also cause its catastrophic breakdown. (3) Many organisations seek to limit the variability of human action, primarily to minimise error, but it is this same variability – in the form of timely adjustment...

Food Safety Accounting: As a Novel Interdisciplinary Approach in Iran

A Qualitative Investigation into Components of Patient Safety Organizational Culture in the Medical Education Centers: A Medical Errors Management Approach

Introduction: The patient safety is a subset of organizational culture and is defined as a set of individual and organizational priorities, values, attitudes and behaviors which look for minimizing errors and damages arising from the process of patient treatment.  This study seeks to describe the experiences of patients and their companions about the patient safety organizational culture and me...

Safety culture in GolGohar Mine in Southeast Iran in 2014

Background: Safety culture and attitude form an integral part of organizations' cultures and their improved levels are influential in the prevention of occupational accidents and injuries. The present study was conducted to assess the safety culture and attitude of workers in the mining industry in Iran. Materials and Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted on 172 workers em...