In healthcare, a weakness in health facility occupational safety is eventually paid for by a patient. The data supporting occupational safety is usually present but rarely assembled into a decision. Progress on the wider health and pharmaceutical services agenda is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The programme is built to be used, and every section of health facility occupational safety it covers ends in something applicable. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for this aspect of health and pharmaceutical services, not for observers of it. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about occupational safety in their own setting. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about health facility occupational safety. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place occupational safety among the areas with the widest performance spread. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make this strand of health and pharmaceutical services sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Design a process for health facility occupational safety that clinical staff can follow without obstructing care.
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Agree the first three actions on occupational safety that will be taken on returning to work.
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Build a register of the risks attaching to health facility occupational safety and keep it current.
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Diagnose whether a problem in occupational safety is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
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Protect patient confidentiality and data within health facility occupational safety.
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Build informed consent and ethics practice into occupational safety.
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Build the quality indicators for health facility occupational safety that reflect patient outcome, not activity.
Who Should Attend
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Nursing managers and clinical supervisors delivering health facility occupational safety.
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Internal auditors reviewing how occupational safety is designed and operated.
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Finance managers costing services delivered through health facility occupational safety.
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Clinical department heads responsible for occupational safety.
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Team leaders and supervisors who put health facility occupational safety into practice day to day.
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Accreditation and compliance officers preparing evidence on occupational safety.
Course Modules
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Health facility occupational safety: medication and treatment safety
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Consent, confidentiality and ethics in health facility occupational safety
Distinguish symptoms from causes when health facility occupational safety underperforms.
Measure patient experience of occupational safety and feed it back to the team.
Close out actions on health facility occupational safety rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Match staffing levels on occupational safety to measured demand across the week.
Session 2Making occupational safety work when resources are constrained
Audit health facility occupational safety by observing practice, not by reading policy.
Plan continuity of occupational safety during surge and outbreak conditions.
Check that consent processes within health facility occupational safety are genuinely informed.
Confirm that contractual obligations around occupational safety are understood.
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Occupational safety: clinical process design and workflow
