Safety Culture (building And Sustaining A Cultural Change In Aviation And Healthcare)

By (author) Sabin Edward J.; By (author) Bigda-Peyton Thomas G.; By (author) Brown, Jeffrey P; By (author) Patankar, Manoj S
Short description/annotation
Describes the dynamic nature of a culture-change process, particularly in safety-critical domains. In this book, the authors use the Safety Culture Pyramid model to present a more comprehensive look at safety culture rather than the traditional perspective that has been limited to safety climate analysis.
Description
In "Safety Culture: Building and Sustaining a Cultural Change in Aviation and Healthcare", the four authors draw upon their extensive teaching, research and field experience from multiple industries to describe the dynamic nature of a culture-change process, particularly in safety-critical domains. They use the Safety Culture Pyramid model to present a more comprehensive look at safety culture rather than the traditional perspective that has been limited to safety climate analysis. This model uses mixed-method approach to present analysis of safety culture at four levels: safety values, safety strategies, safety climate, and safety performance. Together, these levels form the Safety Culture Pyramid. Cases from aviation and healthcare are used to illustrate the various assessment methods, and the book concludes with more comprehensive case studies from both these domains.
Table of contents
Contents: Foreword; Preface; The safety culture pyramid; Safety culture assessment; Safety performance; Safety climate; Safety strategies; Safety values; Safety culture transformation; Conclusion; Index.
Review quote
''Although aviation and medicine are the disciplines that form the springboard for Safety Culture''s discussion of issues, the book will be of value to any organization seeking to evaluate and to improve its own system of safety procedures.'' Care Management Journals, Volume 14, No. 1, 2013
Biographical note
Dr. Manoj Patankar is the Executive Director of the Center for Aviation Safety Research (which he established) as well as the Vice President (Academics) of the Frost Campus at Saint Louis University. Manoj has authored 50 publications, including 3 books, and developed research partnerships with more than 20 airlines and repair stations as well as several hospitals. He has secured total funding of more than $6 million from the Federal Aviation Administration for research in the areas of maintenance human factors and safety culture, and has established leadership in connecting flight safety with patient safety. Manoj has managed five Safety Across High-Consequence Industries conferences and in 2011 he published the first edition of the International Journal of Safety Across High-Consequence Industries. Jeff Brown''s work focuses on supporting improvement in the management of risk and safety in domains where there is high consequence for failure. He has supported numerous patient safety improvement efforts in U.S. hospitals since 1999. Prior to beginning his consulting practice in 1996, Jeff served as an administrator and faculty member for collegiate aviation education programs. Current affiliations include the Cognitive Solutions Division of Applied Research Associates and Healthcare Team Training, LLC. Dr. Edward Sabin is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Saint Louis University where he serves as Director of the doctoral program in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Director of the Center for the Application of Behavioral Sciences. He holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Aviation Science and is a member of the Center for Aviation Safety Research. Edward''s research and consultation interests include organizational assessment, change and development, organizational learning, and communication processes with a special focus on safety culture in high-consequence industries. Edward is a member of the Association for Psychological Science,