The development of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) has been
motivated by the perceived limitations of fundamentally deterministic and probabilistic …

Safety in aviation has often been compared with safety in healthcare. Following a recent
article in this journal, the UK government set up an Independent Patient Safety Investigation …

Objetivo: discutir desafios para a elaboração e implementação de planos de resposta e
prontidão estratégica contra a COVID-19. Métodos: partindo de recomendações da …

Health care is everywhere under tremendous pressure with regard to efficiency, safety, and
economic viability-to say nothing of having to meet various political agendas-and has …

One of the world's great designers shares his vision of" the fundamental principles of great
and meaningful design", that's" even more relevant today than it was when first …

Background The framework of a just culture ensures balanced accountability for both
individuals and the organization responsible for designing and improving systems in the …

Background Interest in human factors has increased across healthcare communities and
institutions as the value of human centred design in healthcare becomes increasingly clear …

The term" patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community--in
particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities--sought to raise …

Background Resilience engineering is a paradigm for safety management that focuses on
coping with complexity to achieve success, even considering several conflicting goals …

This paper contributes to safety management by bringing in ideas from organizational
complexity theories. Much of the studies and the literature on organizations as complex …