Manufacturing companies face a wide range of dangerous situations that can result in serious injury to employees and significant financial liability to the company. Because of this, comprehensive ...

Every day, an estimated five to 10 arc flash incidents occur and more than 2,000 people are hospitalized each year, according to The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). With arc flash and ...

In the wake of Johns Hopkins' success in virtually eliminating intensive-care unit bloodstream infections via a simple five-step checklist, the safety scientist who developed and popularized the tool ...

A review by Johns Hopkins researchers recently published in the journal Critical Care, says although it’s clear that use of aviation-like safety checklists based on scientific evidence can work and ...

Proven patient safety solutions such as the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist are challenging to implement at scale. A voluntary initiative was launched in South Carolina hospitals ...

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...

Patient safety is the foundation of modern healthcare. The World Health Organization has recognized its critical importance by declaring September 17 as World Patient Safety Day. This observance aims ...