Learning from Patient Safety Incidents: Creating Participative Risk Regulation in Healthcare

Published on December 17, 2015February 16, 2017 by Jared Padgett

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

Learning at Air Navigation Services After Initial Training

Published on December 3, 2015February 16, 2017 by Jared Padgett

This study addresses the need for organizational learning in a high-risk, high reliability organization. Though there was an initial training, group learning and organizational learning in an air traffic control organization was occurring spontaneously and not necessarily reaching all areas of the organization. The study sought to learn the best way to improve the safety of the flights being routed through this organization and increase organizational awareness.

Teperi, A., Leppänen, A., (2010). Learning at air navigation services after initial training. Journal of Workplace Learning, 22(6), 335-359. doi:10.1108/13665621011063469