Active Safety Leadership factor

For more on the Active Safety Leadership factor, see also Habeck, Hunt, and VanTol (1998), Habeck et al. (1998), and Hunt et al. (1993). 

Healthcare is an extremely diverse enterprise and the causes of harm, and the associated solutions, will differ according to the process under consideration. Some factors, such as leadership, culture and attitudes to safety, are generic and important in all environments. However, the kinds of specific solutions required to ensure high reliability in, for instance, blood transfusion services, will obviously differ horn those aimed at reducing inpatient suicides. Improving safety requires some generic, cross-organizational action, coupled with some speciality and process specific activities. 

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