Publications
Food safety performance indicators to benchmark food safety output of food safety management systems Ghent University
Introducing the extended safety fractal: reusing the concept of safety management systems to organize resilient organizations University of Antwerp KU Leuven
Although mandatory in most high-risk industries, the safety management system (SMS) is often criticized as burdensome and complex. Through its requirement to formalize all main activities, the SMS is perceived as bureaucratic and a vehicle for pure compliance and Safety I (one). Furthermore, the SMS is often detached from an organization’s core activities, goes against local practice and does not deliver the safe performance that was hoped for. ...
Does lean management improve patient safety culture? An extensive evaluation of safety culture in a radiotherapy institute. Hasselt University
PURPOSE: The importance of a safety culture to maximize safety is no longer questioned. However, achieving sustainable culture improvements are less evident. Evidence is growing for a multifaceted approach, where multiple safety interventions are combined. Lean management is such an integral approach to improve safety, quality and efficiency and therefore, could be expected to improve the safety culture. This paper presents the effects of lean ...
Does lean management improve patient safety culture? An extensive evaluation of safety culture in a radiotherapy institute. Hasselt University
PURPOSE: The importance of a safety culture to maximize safety is no longer questioned. However, achieving sustainable culture improvements are less evident. Evidence is growing for a multifaceted approach, where multiple safety interventions are combined. Lean management is such an integral approach to improve safety, quality and efficiency and therefore, could be expected to improve the safety culture. This paper presents the effects of lean ...
Safety and performance; Total Respect Management. A Novel Approach to Achieve Safety and Performance Proactively in Any Organisation KU Leuven
© 2017 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. This book is not about performance. It is also not about safety. It is about both performance and safety, and how these two are unavoidably linked, in all circumstances whether they like it or not. It is the combination of tireless attention for and performance and safety that delivers sustainable profits in any organisational context. To this end, the authors elaborate and describe an ...
Patient Safety Policy in Long-Term Care: A Research Protocol to Assess Executive WalkRounds to Improve Management of Early Warning Signs for Patient Safety KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: At many hospitals and long-term care organizations (such as nursing homes), executive board members have a responsibility to manage patient safety. Executive WalkRounds offer an opportunity for boards to build a trusting relationship with professionals and seem useful as a leadership tool to pick up on soft signals, which are indirect signals or early warnings that something is wrong. Because the majority of the research on ...
Developing a method to improve safety management systems based on accident investigations: The SAfety FRactal ANalysis KU Leuven University of Antwerp
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd The concept of a safety management system (SMS) to control the risks of operational activities has been introduced in high-risk industries already some decades ago. SMS requires accidents/incidents to be reported and analysed and measures to be taken to prevent future events. Additionally, national investigating bodies have been given the role of independently investigating serious events, with the same goal. The current ...
A quantitative study to the microbial safety performance of implemented food safety management systems in Europe Ghent University
Introduction: Driven by various food safety crises and the high pressure from government and food authorities, European food processing companies have spent much efforts in their food safety management systems (FSMS) to control and assure microbial food safety of their products. However, have these efforts resulted in adequate functioning FSMS? Methods: A FSMS-Diagnostic Instrument (58 indicators/questions with grids including detailed level ...