Aviation Safety Model

A Rational and Proven Approach

The Application of the Aviation Safety Model

to the Healthcare Industry

The “Aviation Safety Model” has been used for decades….

with great success in numerous high-risk industries

• General and Commercial Aviation

• Nuclear Energy

• Petroleum

• Chemical

Rational and Proven Success Based Upon

Common Sense, Safety & Statistical Engineering

• Transfers the accumulation of statistics into immediately usable data
  

• Employs transfer of knowledge
  

• Standardized data accumulation and therefore, standardized data usage

1. Non-Punitive reporting of all errors (only punitive action is failure to report)

2. Confidential  reporting

3. Data collected is merely a TOOL to be immediately used for the end goal of error reduction

4. Data analysis

1. Constant access to accumulated statistics

2. Immediate access to graphical error comparisons between all facilities and/or similar hospitals (in-total or among system owned)

3. Unlimited and immediate comparison of error types, settings, periods, event severity, personnel involved (by job description only)

5. Application of statistics and analysis to error rate reduction

1. Software identification and alarming of specific areas of concern

2. Communications

3. Sharing of knowledge pertaining to specific departmental standard operating procedures that have factually proven to lend well to reduced error rates (systemic errors)

The Adaptation of the Aviation Safety Model to the Healthcare Industry Could Only Have Been Accomplished By Utilizing the Knowledge, Experience and Talents of Those Representing Specific Industries