A list of safety risk assessment ideas
People often ask me about ideas for safety risk assessments.
In HCPro’s Safety Risk Assessment Tools book published last year, there is a fairly comprehensive list of common risks in the healthcare environment that you could use to get things started.
For example, here are some potential risks to the building itself:
- Age of the structure
- Lack of access for handicapped people
- Eyewash stations and safety shower locations
- Cell phone interference potential
- Electrical dangers
- Paging system “dead zones”
- Suicide potential due to building features
- Suicide potential due to building systems
- Wrong wayfinding signs
- Stairwell design
Once you have your risks, it’s basically a question of plugging in the severity data and coming up with mitigation and improvement strategies.
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