Healthcare is very different from aviation; it is more complex, more diverse and much more reliant on human interaction than aviation or other safety-critical industries. This means that approaches to safety used in aviation cannot simply be transferred into healthcare. However, with suitable modification and testing, it might be possible to adapt some aviation safety practices to healthcare.
The approach to investigation of serious accidents and incidents in aviation has led to a significant improvement in safety. The same is not true in healthcare. Most healthcare systems experience recurrent systemic failures but despite the extensive use of incident reporting and investigation, healthcare has not got safer.
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch was established by the English healthcare system in 2017 to investigate serious, systemic, patient safety issues using approaches developed from aviation and other safety critical industries. The Chief Investigator is a former pilot who led the UK’s Air Accident Investigation Branch and investigators are from a range of backgrounds including healthcare, air, military and marine accident investigation and academia.
Learning objectives;
By the end of this session delegates will be able to;
1. Describe the different safety models used in other safety-critical industries.
2. Understand how some of these might be applied in different areas of healthcare.
3. Understand the benefits and challenges of adapting safety investigation techniques from aviation into healthcare.
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