Assessing propensity to learn from safety-related events

Learning from incidents in health care: Critique from a Safety-II perspective

“…The analysis of incidents seeks to reveal contributory factors and underlying causes (Drupsteen and Guldenmund, 2014), which can then be addressed in order to reduce the likelihood of incidents recurring. Learning from past experiences does not have to be limited to the consideration of incidents, but can also include monitoring and analysis of leading indicators, or even weak signals (Drupsteen and Wybo, 2015). However, increasing evidence in the literature indicates that effective learning from past experiences in order to improve safety performance has proven to be difficult (Le Coze, 2013, Lukic et al, 2012, Drupsteen and Hasle, 2014.…”

Proactive occupational safety and health management: Promoting good health and good business

“…Drupsteen and Wybo (2014) state that the majority of organisations use experience of past safety related incidents to learn and improve safety and these authors developed a set of indicators for the propensity to learn from past safety related experience (attitudes, organisational conditions and systems). The use of the CIC model in the present study considers attitudes, organisational conditions and systems when classifying organisations into CIC categories by examining attitudes towards OSH, priorities for OSH management, management commitment, stakeholder involvement, training and communication, improvement to health and safety and formalisation of OSH management.…”

Implementing Healthcare Improvement

“…The analysis of incidents seeks to reveal contributory factors and underlying causes [58], which can then be addressed in order to reduce the likelihood of incidents recurring. Learning from past experiences does not have to be limited to the consideration of incidents, but can also include monitoring and analysis of leading indicators, or even weak signals [62]. However, there is increasing evidence in the literature that suggests that effective learning from past experiences in order to improve safety performance remains challenging even in traditional safety-critical industries [59,61,63].…”