Safety Management Systems & Leadership Flashcards
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Under OSHA's General Duty Clause, healthcare employers are required to:
Answer: Furnish a workplace free from recognized serious hazards
The General Duty Clause (Section 5(a)(1)) requires employers to provide a workplace free from recognized hazards likely to cause death or serious physical harm.
Which framework is commonly used to assess organizational safety maturity in healthcare?
Answer: Hudson's Safety Culture Ladder
Hudson's Safety Culture Ladder (Pathological → Reactive → Calculative → Proactive → Generative) is widely applied to assess and advance safety culture maturity.
A healthcare safety professional wants to benchmark their organization's safety performance. Which external resource is MOST appropriate?
Answer: AHRQ's Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture comparative database
AHRQ's comparative database allows organizations to compare their safety culture survey results against national healthcare benchmarks.
In a healthcare safety management system, 'leading indicators' would include:
Answer: Frequency of safety walk-rounds completed by leadership
Leading indicators measure proactive safety activities (like safety walk-rounds) that predict future safety performance, unlike lagging indicators that record past harm.
When a healthcare organization's safety management system fails to improve outcomes despite implementing multiple interventions, the safety leader should FIRST:
Answer: Re-evaluate whether the interventions addressed true root causes
Persistent poor outcomes despite interventions suggest the root causes were not accurately identified; revisiting the analysis is the priority before adding more interventions.
The purpose of a 'safety culture assessment' in a healthcare organization is to:
Answer: Diagnose systemic strengths and weaknesses in safety norms and behaviors
Safety culture assessments reveal the underlying beliefs, norms, and behaviors that drive how safety is prioritized and practiced across the organization.
A healthcare safety manager discovers that a corrective action from a previous incident investigation was never implemented. The BEST response is to:
Answer: Identify accountability gaps in the corrective action tracking system and escalate
Unimplemented corrective actions indicate a systemic accountability failure that must be escalated and corrected to prevent recurrence of the original hazard.