High Reliability Organizations—Medication Safety

High reliability versus high autonomy: Dryden, Murphy and patient safety.

Healthcare is not a high-reliability industry. The adverse event rate is on the order of 10(-2); industries such as aviation, nuclear power and railways achieve rates of 10(-5) or better. Increasing awareness of this contrast has made "patient safety" a major topic of concern. High reliability in other industries flows from a combination of "engineered safety," tight regulation ("high-level con...

Promoting health care safety through training high reliability teams.

Many organizations have been using teams as a means of achieving organizational outcomes (such as productivity and safety). Research has indicated that teams, especially those operating in complex environments, are not always effective. There is a subset of organizations in which teams operate that are able to balance effectiveness and safety despite the complexities of the environment (for exa...

Integrated Safety , Reliability , and Diagnostics of High Assurance , High Consequence Systems

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

We introduce a new method for screening inputs in mathematical or computational models with large numbers of inputs. The method proposed here represents an improvement over the best available practice for this setting when dealing with models having strong interaction effects. When the sample size is sufficiently high the same design can also be used to obtain accurate quantitative estimates of...

Improve Reliability in Safety Software.indd

A safety-critical system is a system where human safety is dependent upon the correct operation of the system. It can also be defi ned as failures in systems that can lead to the death of one to potentially several million people. A safety-critical system is a different breed of animal. The primary aim of a safety-critical system is never to aid productivity, increase profi ts or improve the tu...