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Claims Underwriting Other Features Events Forums Buyers Guide Insurance Twitter Market Directories Ad Showcase Quotes Polls Subscribe Is what percentage of accidents are caused by human error Human Error in Workplace Preventable? Maybe May 27, 2011 Email This Print Newsletters Tweet Article 1 Comments If a worker makes a mistake that leads to an accident, should that
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employee take the blame? Maybe not, according to Indiana University of Pennsylvania Safety Sciences professor Jan Wachter. Wachter believes that human error in the workplace, while not completely preventable, can be managed by better tools to motivate and engage workers in the safety process. "While human error has been associated with the majority of incidents in the workplace, it can be road accidents are caused by human errors managed through a variety of mechanisms. But motivation and worker engagement may be the keys to human-error reduction," he said. Wachter will test this theory in a research project that recently received $90,000 in funding from the Alcoa Foundation. Wachter hopes that the outcomes of this research, once instituted in the workplace, could reduce lost workdays due to accidents by 20 percent. Wachter says that the key difference in his study, as opposed to other research on safety in the workplace, is that he will investigate how well—or how poorly—workers are engaged, or buying into, a shared accountability for identifying at-risk situations and responding to them. For example, a worker may forget her safety glasses and get glass or metal shards in her eye. Wachter suggests that this type of accident could be prevented through methods of worker engagement. That is, before each work shift, employees may get together and remind each other of the specific personal protective equipment needed for that day's task. "It is believed that actively engaged employees demonstrate a greater sense of personal ownership and compliance wit
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ListQual Saf Health Carev.11(3); 2002 SepPMC1743650 Qual Saf Health Care. 2002 Sep; 11(3): 277–282. road accidents are caused by human errors what is your opinion doi: 10.1136/qhc.11.3.277PMCID: PMC1743650Preventable anesthesia mishaps: a study of human factors*J. Cooper, R. Newbower, C. Long, and B. McPeekLaboratories of the Bioengineering Unit, http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2011/05/27/200344.htm Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.Author information ► Copyright and License information ►Copyright notice This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.Abstract A modified critical-incident analysis technique was used in a retrospective examination of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1743650/ the characteristics of human error and equipment failure in anesthetic practice. The objective was to uncover patterns of frequently occurring incidents that are in need of careful prospective investigation. Forty seven interviews were conducted with staff and resident anesthesiologists at one urban teaching institution, and descriptions of 359 preventable incidents were obtained. Twenty three categories of details from these descriptions were subjected to computer-aided analysis for trends and patterns. Most of the preventable incidents involved human error (82%), with breathing-circuit disconnections, inadvertent changes in gas flow, and drug syringe errors being frequent problems. Overt equipment failures constituted only 14% of the total number of preventable incidents, but equipment design was indictable in many categories of human error, as were inadequate experience and insufficient familiarity with equipment or with the specific surgical procedur
occur annually as a result of medical errors in US hospitals. These numbers, if accurate, would make hospitals the eighth leading cause of death in America http://www.whsc.emory.edu/_pubs/momentum/2000fall/onpoint.html and do not even include medical errors in the outpatient setting. This would rank the lethality of US hospitals ahead of motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, and AIDS. Very little controversy greeted the IOM report when it was released last November. To a large extent the initial reaction was, "yes, we can and should strive to reduce errors." The accuracy of the numbers was human error viewed as perhaps not so important. The areas of greatest controversy continue to center on error reporting, especially liability protection and whether error reporting should be mandatory or voluntary. In the months since the release of the IOM report, many questions about the data have arisen. How accurate are the data? What exactly constitutes a medical "error?" Is the death rate due to medical errors caused by human really analogous to a large jetliner falling out of the sky every day or two? Understanding the data allows us to put both the report and its criticisms in perspective. Two studies form the nucleus of the IOM report. Interestingly, neither study is new. The 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study reviewed hospitalizations in 1984 and identified 98,000 deaths related to errors. A 1992 study in Colorado and Utah extrapolated 44,000 annual deaths. In these two studies, respectively, 3.7% and 2.9% of hospital admissions incurred an "adverse event," or, in other words, an event resulting from medical care rather than from the underlying disease. The Harvard study identified 19% of the adverse events as drug related, while 14% were wound infections and 13%, technical complications. Overall, 58% of the adverse events identified in this study were labeled "preventable." Both core studies used retrospective chart review to identify errors. It is clear that errors are underreported and that such review is necessary to ascertain the true rate of "preventable adverse events." This latter term is used synonymously with medical error in the IOM report. nternist Troyen Brennan of the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston