In this recorded webinar as part of the NES project on Human Factors and Quality Improvement integration (funded by the Health Foundation Q Exchange programme), Prof Patrick Waterson (Loughborough University) reviews some of the ways in which we have attempted within human factors and safety science to provide an account of why accidents happen and how to prevent them.
Accident Models - past, present and future in Healthcare
The webinar examines work in the form of methods and models developed since the Second World War and up until today. Many of these methods are being applied to healthcare and are being actively used to support accident investigations/analysis. The webinar also takes stock of how these are being applied and where some of the future challenges are (e.g moving away from blame; the role played by organisational and systems-related-error.)
