Why "Stopping the Line" May Not Work, Part 1

Show Notes

Patient Safety professionals advise "stopping the line" when encountering an imminent safety risk. Work stops until the risk is identified, analyzed, and mitigated to avoid harm. However, an organization's culture dictates if team members feel psychologically safe to stop work abruptly. Join us on this two-episode series, where Rey Gonzalez, an expert in Nuclear power and human performance, shares why stopping the line may not work and how to transform organizational culture, so it will.

What is Speak Up for SaferCare?

Patient safety is everybody’s business. Preventable medical errors occur in 10% of all patient encounters in a variety of healthcare settings, which can be devastating to patients, families, and the healthcare workers providing their care. Most errors originate from faulty systems or processes, and not individuals. Speak Up for SaferCare shares stories from subject matter experts, healthcare workers, patients, and caregivers-and aims to illuminate where things went wrong, so future harm is prevented.