Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Healthcare, as a safety-critical industry, has often been contrasted with aviation and nuclear energy. Though safety tactics learned from aviation and nuclear energy have proven effective, healthcare continues to have higher number of preventable serious adverse events in comparison to aviation and nuclear energy. A mixed-method study was conducted and revealed that aviation and nuclear energy have international organizations which develop standards to harmonize operations globally. According to these standards, there are explicit regulatory requirements within aviation and nuclear energy, to implement safety management systems at the organizational level. Application of safety management systems to the extent implemented in aviation and nuclear energy has not been fully investigated or applied in healthcare practice. Recommendations include but are not limited to the development and implementation of a safety management system standard which includes process control, management of change, proactive hazard identification and risk management, fatigue management, and reliability analysis of safety-critical tasks.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Andia Toomari
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3004706098