EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Risk-Based Thinking

Enterprise Risk Management

Risk Management

Process safety management is widely credited for reductions in major accident risk and improved process industry performance. Process safety practices and formal safety management systems have been in place in some companies for many years. Over the past 20 years, government mandates for formal process safety management systems in Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere have prompted widespread implementation of a management systems approach to process safety management.

To understand and improve the way that organisations work, we must think in systems. This means considering the interactions between the parts of the system (human, social, technical, information, political, economic and organisational) in light of system goals.

Process Safety Resources

The AAMI Foundation’s National Coalition for Alarm Management Safety developed this framework for medical device alarm management. This article is intended to guide stakeholders in developing sustainable solutions and to serve as a foundation for discussions with hospital executives, healthcare technology managers, patient safety offcers, and risk managers. The framework is not intended to be prescriptive but rather a guide for continuous improvement efforts to reduce non-actionable alarms of all types originating from medical devices.

Flight Safety

Reflections from Global Process Safety Leaders During and Following Pandemics