Safety Management and Leadership Flashcards
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Which leadership style is most effective when implementing a new safety culture in a healthcare organization experiencing high resistance to change?
Answer: Transformational leadership
Transformational leadership inspires and motivates staff to embrace change by connecting safety efforts to shared values and vision.
A healthcare safety professional is conducting a root cause analysis after a sentinel event. Which tool best maps the sequence of events leading to the incident?
Answer: Flow chart
A flow chart sequentially maps the steps and decision points in a process, making it ideal for tracing the timeline of events in an incident.
Under OSHA's General Duty Clause, healthcare employers are required to:
Answer: Provide a workplace free from recognized serious hazards
Section 5(a)(1) of the OSH Act requires employers to furnish a workplace free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm.
A safety manager notices that injury rates are high in one nursing unit but low in another with similar patient acuity. The BEST first step is to:
Answer: Conduct a comparative safety culture survey across both units
A safety culture survey identifies underlying attitudinal and systemic differences between units before implementing targeted interventions.
Which metric is a leading indicator of safety performance in a healthcare setting?
Answer: Percentage of staff completing safety training
Training completion rates are leading indicators because they measure proactive safety activities before injuries occur.
The Swiss Cheese Model of accident causation is most useful for:
Answer: Demonstrating how multiple system failures align to cause harm
The Swiss Cheese Model illustrates how defenses, barriers, and safeguards each have holes, and accidents occur when the holes align across layers.
When developing a healthcare safety committee charter, which element is MOST critical to include?
Answer: Defined scope, authority, and reporting structure
A charter must define the committee's scope, authority, and reporting lines so it can operate effectively and be held accountable.