Checklist for Assessing Institutional Resilience

Patient safety is recognized as being everyone s responsibility, not just that of the risk management team. 

Top management accepts occasional setbacks and nasty surprises as inevitable. It anticipates that staff will make errors and trains them to detect and recover from them. 

After some mishap, the primary aim of top management is to identify the failed system defenses and improve them rather than seeking to pin blame on specific individuals. 

Top management adopts a proactive stance toward patient safety. It does some or all of the following takes steps to identify recurrent error traps and removes them strives to eliminate the workplace and organization factors likely to provoke errors brainstorms new scenarios of failure conducts regular health checks on the organizational processes known to contribute to mishaps. 

It is understood that effective management of patient safety, like any other management process, depends critically on the collection, analysis, and dissemination of relevant information. 

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