[MCOH-EH] Safety goals

[Deborah a Sampson]

Great point- My experience is that  when the CEO is a ‘bean counter’ a national ‘benchmark’ linked to potential financial risk may be required for annual goals. 

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From: william hyman
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 10:19 PM
To: mcoh-eh at mylist.net
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Safety goals

Is reducing OSHA recordables a safety goal or a regulatory goal? Ideally the objective should be to reduce injuries, not just what is reportable.

And as for "alot of work" in Message 2, isn't that what you are there for?

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:13 PM <mcoh-eh-request at mylist.net> wrote:

Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  Safety Goals (Hughes, Dennis)
   2. Re:  Safety Goals (Thrasher, Terri (Terri))


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From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net> On Behalf Of Massey-Jenkins, Angela M
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 7:32 AM
To: MCOH/EH <mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Safety Goals

It would be wonderful, if you had time Terri, to share how you set your interventions and what they are to reduce BBF?s and employee patient related injuries.  This is something that we are working on, as well as everyone else.  Always helpful to see how and what others are doing.

Thank you!

Angela Massey-Jenkins BSN, RN
317.962.2563 | 317.719.5064(cell)
Apugh2 at iuhealth.org<mailto:Apugh2 at iuhealth.org>

From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net<mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net>> On Behalf Of Thrasher, Terri (Terri)
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 10:25 AM
To: MCOH/EH <mcoh-eh at mylist.net<mailto:mcoh-eh at mylist.net>>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Safety Goals

We have a goal to reduce 50% by 2020 our OSHA recordables set by our executive leaders
We have a goal to reduce lost time and restricted duty set by our executive leaders
We have a goal and lots of interventions to reduce blood bornes and patient related injury and slips trips and falls and overexertion as well set by our safety team.


From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of william hyman
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2018 3:46 PM
To: mcoh-eh at mylist.net<mailto:mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Safety Goals

Is a trap of having numerical safety goals the implication that some level of non-safety is ok, and if so, ok with who?

Today's Topics:

   1.  Employee Workplace Safety Goals (Sharon Petersen)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:41:57 +0000
From: Sharon Petersen <Sharon.Petersen at imail.org<mailto:Sharon.Petersen at imail.org>>

Subject: [MCOH-EH] Employee Workplace Safety Goals

Dear List Serve Members,

I would appreciate hearing from you about the goals your healthcare organization sets around employee safety.
1.       Does your governing board or leadership set a formal goal to address caregiver injuries in your organization?
2.       If so, what is your safety goal?
3.       What is the focus on employee safety in your organization?
4.       What are your organization's tactics or initiatives to reduce injuries?
5.       How do you measure success or movement toward your goal (besides reducing the injury rate)?

Thank you in advance for your response.

Sharon Petersen, MSN, RN, COHN/CM
Director, Employee Health Services
Intermountain Healthcare
sharon.petersen at imail.org<mailto:sharon.petersen at imail.org><mailto:sharon.petersen at imail.org<mailto:sharon.petersen at imail.org>>
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 22:12:44 +0000
From: "Thrasher, Terri (Terri)" <Terri.Thrasher at cchmc.org>
To: MCOH/EH <mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Safety Goals
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It?s all a lot of work?
But we start with data to understand the issues?
So every incident/injury gets called into our hotline.
The hotline enters it as a case and manages if the employee has an injury or if they are reporting a safety concern or what?
They document into our system and the system generates not only the OSHA log but creates data for us to review?daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly?what ever is needed.

So that data drives what we would work on.
Trying to reduce lost time we see a lot of them are due to patient interaction.
We are looking to reduce the number of patient interaction injuries that reach the OSHA log level.
We have done Root cause analysis and failure mode effect analysis? on certain injuries and made improvements ? such as have mental health specialists in the ER to help manage behavioral patients that get out of control?. Or a behavioral team that helps manage behavioral patients on med beds, or improving the types of Kevlar PPE used on the Psych unit?etc.
And we are looking to spread learnings to all locations?

We are trying to reduce musculoskeletal injury by a 200% accountability campaign.
Data tells us most are slips trips falls from not paying attention, not using hand rails, not walking safely and watching where they walk (likely texting)?etc.
So our annual bonus will be contingent on employees watching a video we are creating specific to some of these issues? and then they have to pass a test on the content and they have to sign an attestation of their commitment to certain expected behaviors? particularly courage to speak up and gratitude in response to speaking up.

We?re working on blood bornes and other things as well?

From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net<mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net>> On Behalf Of Massey-Jenkins, Angela M
Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 7:32 AM

It would be wonderful, if you had time Terri, to share how you set your interventions and what they are to reduce BBF?s and employee patient related injuries.  This is something that we are working on, as well as everyone else.  Always helpful to see how and what others are doing.

Thank you!

Angela Massey-Jenkins BSN, RN
317.962.2563 | 317.719.5064(cell)
Apugh2 at iuhealth.org<mailto:Apugh2 at iuhealth.org>

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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 21:41:57 +0000
From: Sharon Petersen <Sharon.Petersen at imail.org<mailto:Sharon.Petersen at imail.org>>
To: "mcoh-eh at mylist.net<mailto:mcoh-eh at mylist.net>" <mcoh-eh at mylist.net<mailto:mcoh-eh at mylist.net>>
Subject: [MCOH-EH] Employee Workplace Safety Goals

Dear List Serve Members,

I would appreciate hearing from you about the goals your healthcare organization sets around employee safety.
1.       Does your governing board or leadership set a formal goal to address caregiver injuries in your organization?
2.       If so, what is your safety goal?
3.       What is the focus on employee safety in your organization?
4.       What are your organization's tactics or initiatives to reduce injuries?
5.       How do you measure success or movement toward your goal (besides reducing the injury rate)?

Thank you in advance for your response.

Sharon Petersen, MSN, RN, COHN/CM
Director, Employee Health Services
Intermountain Healthcare
sharon.petersen at imail.org<mailto:sharon.petersen at imail.org><mailto:sharon.petersen at imail.org<mailto:sharon.petersen at imail.org>>
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