Safety Committee

Safety committee

ž  Purpose

To addresses all areas of hospital operations in an attempt to ensure and improve safety for all patients, staffs and visitors. To ensure a safe working environment by requiring supervisors to enforce training, documentation and safety practices set forth in various hospital safety programs.

ž  Responsibilities

1. All safety related reporting and data collections mechanisms shall be established and pursued like.
1. Incident Reporting
2. Medication Error Reporting
3. Adverse Drug Reactions
4. HAI Infection Reports
5. Facility Safety Surveillance
2. The hospital shall collect data and analyze it regarding the following aspects with a view to improve patient safety plan.
1. Staff perceptions and suggestions for improving patient safety
2. Staff willingness to report errors
3. Patient/family perceptions and suggestions for improving patient safety
3. The hospital may also focus on the improvement of the patient safety program through utilizing proactive risk reduction strategies like.
1. Identification, reporting, and management of sentinel events
2. Identification of high-risk processes
3. Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis
4. Responsible for implementation of policies related to Radiation and Laser safety.
5. Undertake Facility & Loss Prevention Surveillance every quarter to identify and analyze potential patient safety issue and submit the report to the Quality Improvement Committee.
6. Prepare Fire Plan, Fire Drawings, fire training and conduct 2 fire drills/ year.
7. Prepare Disaster Plan, Internal & external disaster drill annually.

ž  Frequency of meeting

The Committee shall meet once at least every four month

    ž              Sample composition

SAFETY COMMITTEE
Composition	Designation
General Manager/Administrator	Chairperson
Safety officer	Convenor
One representative each department
Laboratory safety officer	Member
Radiation safety officer	Member
Maintenance HOD	Member
Fire safety officer	Member
OT incharge	Member
ICU incharge	Member
Infection Control Nurse	Member
HOD security	Member

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