This article’s authors discuss the concept of participatory regulation, where the employees of a firm help regulate safety beyond the level of outside or governmental agencies. A comparison is made between aviation regulation and medical regulation, and the authors discuss how the two industries can share insight. This is a component of HRO theory, which emerged in part from the field of aviation. It directly ties HRO to patient safety in a healthcare organization.
Macrae, C. (2008). Learning from patient safety incidents: Creating participative risk regulation in healthcare. Health, Risk & Society, 10(1), 53–67. doi:10.1080/13698570701782452