In medicine, mistakes can cost lives. If prevention is truly part of the cure, it would benefit hospitals to identify the factors which lead to human error and ...
Background. Doffing protocols for personal protective equipment (PPE) are critical for keeping healthcare workers (HCWs) safe during care of patients with Ebola virus disease. We assessed the ...
Provider focus on patient safety intensified once again after CMS imposed financial penalties on hospitals with high infection rates and provided incentives to those with low rates. In response, ...
A new report from Splunk, "The Hidden Costs of Downtime," analyzes the impact of downtime on organizations and highlights the role simple human error often plays in ...
Mistakes caused 74% of government agencies’ reported data breaches, the latest OAIC report shows, even as other industries averaged about 30%. The number of ...
Robert Cooney, Delta Air Lines' director of fleet engineering. Credit: Aviation Week Network/Jesse Garrett Robert Cooney, Delta Air Lines’ director of fleet engineering, delivered these opening ...
In the quest to reduce errors and improve safety, managers too often focus on the wrong questions. They ask things like, “How can we reduce our incident rate?” and “How can I get workers to pick up ...
Around two in five (39%) businesses experienced a data breach in their cloud environment in 2022, a rise of 4% compared with 2021, a new report has found. The 2023 Thales Global Cloud Security Study, ...
Attributing manufacturing problems to “human error” is an oversimplification that can mask deeper failures, according to Ann Ryan, head of business development at Ireland-based training and technology ...
The University of Strathclyde has encouraged ship operators, safety professionals and accident investigators to use the Safety Human Incident & Error Learning ...
In the early morning of March 26, a 948-foot vessel struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Md., causing its collapse. Preliminary evidence shows that the container ship Dali lost power ...
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