Should Your Organization Integrate Worker Safety and Patient Safety?
Categorized under: Patient Safety
After many years of safety consulting with organizations of all kinds, including those in health and medical care, I’m struck by the division in healthcare between ‘patient safety’ and ‘worker safety’. In most healthcare organizations these two types of safety have separate staffing, metrics, prevention initiatives and systems, and overall leadership emphasis. I believe this division grew naturally for reasons that made sense along the way, but for many organizations it is now time to re-examine the issue. Much is to be gained by integrating these kinds of safety and having them share resources and methods. Doing that effectively requires...