Safetymatters: Organizational and safety culture information, analysis and management

SEC Order Accounting, like many professions, requires practitioners to regularly demonstrate competence and familiarity with relevant knowle...

On March 25, 2022 a former nurse at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) was convicted of gross neglect of an impaired adult and negl...

Joint Commission HQ The need for a more effective safety culture (SC) in the field of healthcare is acute: every year tens of thousands of p...

In her book*, Dr. Ofri takes a hard look at the prevalence of medical errors in the healthcare system.   She reports some familiar statistic...

Charlan Nemeth is a psychology professor at the University of California, Berkeley.  Her research and practical experience inform her conc...

Source: Medical Academic S. Africa We have been posting about preventable harm to health care patients, emphasizing how improved organiz...

We came across an academic journal article * that purports to describe the current state of research into organizational culture (OC).  It...

Typical New Yorker cover In the nuclear industry, most decisions are at least arguably “hard,” i.e., decision makers can agree on the fa...