According to a new report by Lockton Companies, an insurance brokerage firm, health care employers can encourage patient and workplace safety by following 10 steps.
1. Form a corporate risk-safety management oversight committee that is staff by a multidiscipline team of clinicians, risk management safety professionals and operations team members. This committee should be responsible for developing policies and procedures to implement the employee safety effort.
2. Gather health and safety contact information. Part of this includes determining how an emergency contact should be informed if something were to happen.
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3. Disseminate safety alerts. These are necessary when a systemic cause of a safety concern is determined, and an alert should be sent to regional offices with appropriate employee safety prevention steps that should be followed.
4. Share daily safety advisories with each team member.
5. Build an automated accident and injury management system to measure employee safety metrics. This serves as an incentive to determine what employee safety should be considered. Systems with a dashboard are helpful because it can immediately show whether safety metrics are within an acceptable target.
6. Conduct safety operations assessment reviews should also be conducted. There should be a designated staff that is responsible for conducting a partial or complete safety program implementation effectiveness review. The staff should also communicate results to senior leadership.
7. Create an operations and safety playbook that should be available on the intranet. The playbook should contain monthly safety themes and sample leading actions that should be followed.
8. Offering additional training to managers that focuses on understanding why employee safety and safety communication are necessary to the company.
9. Appoint employee safety peer mentors and leaders who are responsible for conducting high-risk assessments and developing care plans on employee and patient safety.
10. Create a safety committee that is responsible for reviewing all incidents, ensuring the primary causes have been determined and corrective measures have been taken.
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