When Ballad Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Amit Vashist, MD, sent quality, safety and infection prevention teams to several member hospitals’ operating rooms unannounced to assess safety culture, he ...

School safety — including the safety and security of students, faculty, staff, and facilities — cannot be an afterthought. It must be a foundational priority, focusing on proactive safety measures ...

Human Performance (HP) is often called a Health and Safety program. In reality, HP is more comprehensive than a typical Health and Safety program as it addresses all errors. HP is an operating ...

Jeff Surges is a board member and former CEO of RLDatix, a leading global provider of connected healthcare operations software and services. Unsafe care is a global public health issue. According to ...

There is a need for changes within the fire service to foster life safety for personnel. One change requires improving the safety culture in fire departments: The behavior of fire service membership ...

Safety professionals are the bridge between those worlds—corporate safety/compliance programs and the frontline work. Therefore, it’s imperative that your health and safety programs meet your workers ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Associated Builders and Contractors has released its 2025 Health and Safety Performance Report, an annual guide to construction jobsite health and safety best practices. As a sponsor, ...

Safety culture is one of those fuzzy concepts like “obscenity” that nobody can precisely define but everybody knows it when they see it. Safety culture is first and foremost a mindset, a set of shared ...

The phrase “food safety culture” is everywhere these days, but what does it mean and how can you, a front-line retail food manager, cultivate it in your workplace? At its core, food safety culture is ...

New Zealand’s largest privately owned primary healthcare group, Tāmaki Health, is responsible for the health and safety of thousands of New Zealanders, and more than 1,200 staff. When its non-clinical ...

For decades, researchers have worried about disappointing (and now negative) gains in American population health. The pages of Health Affairs are filled with these discussions. Kindig & Mullahy ask ...