Patient safety culture in healthcare refers to the collective commitment by clinicians, managers and supporting staff to prioritise patient safety through ethical practices, open communication and ...

Safety culture refers to the ways that safety issues are addressed in a workplace. It often reflects “the attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values that employees share in relation to safety.” 1 The ...

A productive safety culture is an elusive but vital component of successful operations. Many leaders understand what a safe working environment looks like but might not have the tools to set that ...

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Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

When Ballad Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Amit Vashist, MD, sent quality, safety and infection prevention teams to several member hospitals’ operating rooms unannounced to assess safety culture, he ...

Slogans, signs, and lip service may create the illusion of a safety culture, but creating and nurturing a real safety culture ...

Safety culture is one of those fuzzy concepts like “obscenity” that nobody can precisely define but everybody knows it when they see it. Safety culture is first and foremost a mindset, a set of shared ...

Whether at home or in the office, the workplace as we know it has changed dramatically over the past three years; however, one thing that has remained constant is the need for a successful safety ...

The construction industry thrives on a robust safety culture. Cultivating an effective safety environment goes beyond adhering to policies and procedures and pursuing incident-free days. While metrics ...

Safety culture is the assembly of characteristics and attitudes in organizations and individuals which establishes that, as an overriding priority, protection and safety issues receive the attention ...