Cultivating a Robust Safety Culture Through Identifying and Overcoming Barriers within Organizations
Document Type
Capstone Experience
Graduation Date
5-2023
Degree Name
Master of Public Health
First Committee Member
Dr. Sharon Meaker- Medcalf
Second Committee Member
Dr. Brandon Grimm
Third Committee Member
Dr. James Sullivan
Abstract
The hierarchical power structure within healthcare and response teams may impede communication about safety risks and violations. In developing or enhancing the safety culture within the emergency response to infectious disease events in healthcare organizations, the hierarchy of controls can be utilized to evaluate successful transmission prevention or further harm to responding teams. Within the tool, administrative controls focus on policies, procedures, and practices that minimize the risk of exposure/transmission. The idea of a safe culture emerged following the Chernobyl Disaster, in which a combination of human and system failures led to this emergency. Safety culture has been integrated into highly reliable organizations as a tool that can be adopted by organizations that prioritize safety. Organizations that have adopted safety culture practices into daily work remain impacted by high costs of harm or error. The recommendation paper, from a practitioner’s perspective, will explore essential components, barriers, and strategies to enhance safety cultures by reducing the hesitancy to address authoritative figures of policy, procedure, and practice breaches.
Recommended Citation
Shradar, Morgan, "Cultivating a Robust Safety Culture Through Identifying and Overcoming Barriers within Organizations" (2023). Capstone Experience. 238.
https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/coph_slce/238