Re-Imagining Safety in HealthCare
Traditional Safety activities in Healthcare Care keep people safe
BUT
Contemporary Safety Science can extend Safety Learning to include how we
Learn About & From Real World Practice
Strange Name - Powerful Concept!
SAFETY II
Safety II or Resilience engineering is a different way of looking about how care is delivered and directed.It suggests that safe outcomes predominately occur because individuals adapt their practice to match the uniqueness of the context of their practice.
It is a combination of those adaptions, and not solely the design of safety regulations that work to ensure safe outcomes
The absence of harm traditionally indicated safe practice-
Therefore, Safety Learning occurs predominately from When Things Go Wrong If harm occurs, looking back to identify the cause helps prevent future occurrence (Safety I)
Safety II suggests that we have more to Learn about Safety from When Things Go Right also.
The majority of care delivered is safe and free from harm
Understanding how that occurs, can broaden our Insights into Safety Practice & Safety Learning