Why is leading change in health care organizations mandatory?

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Assignment Details

For this assignment, you are a risk manager who must create a plan for leading change to minimize risk within a health care organization.

Discuss each of the following questions using a subheading for each topic:

  • Why is leading change in health care organizations mandatory?
  • Why are radicals important in leading change?
  • What are the challenges of opposing the status quo?
  • Summarize your approach.

The use of 3 scholarly sources (e.g., textbook, article from the CEC Library) is required.

Deliverable Length:  700 words minimum (1-2 pages)

You have just been informed that there has been an accident in your facility.

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Course Project: Conducting an Incident Investigation

In your course project, you will be applying the information covered in previous units to conduct an accident investigation. The specifics of the incident are provided in the attached document, which you may access by clicking here. 

You have just been informed that there has been an accident in your facility. As the facility safety expert, you have contacted your local Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) office to report the incident in compliance with the OSHA’s Severe Incident Reporting Requirement. Since you have not heard back from OSHA, you anticipate your facility will be receiving a visit from an OSHA compliance officer to investigate the incident. Based on your safety expertise and your knowledge of OSHA, you know the compliance officer will be reviewing your safety and health efforts to determine whether the company’s failure to provide a safe and healthy working environment led to the accident. Your management has asked that you prepare a presentation to give them an idea of where they stand with regard to OSHA compliance. 

Using the reference information that you developed as part of your safety management system (SMS) implementation plan in Units III-VI assignments, prepare a presentation that addresses how you will demonstrate the following items to the compliance officer, addressing the company’s: 

  • commitment to the safety and health of their employees, 
  • effort to ensure employees are properly trained, 
  • effort to include employees in their SMS, 
  • effort to identify safety hazards in the workplace, and 
  • effort to prevent and control safety hazards in the workplace. 

Although you can use the previously prepared work as the basis for your presentation, your responses should be specific to the actual accident scenario, which is in the above-attached document. 

Explain the organization’s implementation strategy as it relates to the accident investigation. You are also required to perform an analysis of the accident scenario and include the findings in your presentation as well. Your analysis must identify the following information: 

  • basic cause of the accident, 
  • direct cause of the accident, 
  • indirect cause of the accident, and 
  • recommendation for corrective actions. 

Your presentation should be 12 to 15 slides and include title and reference pages (the title and reference pages do not count toward the total slides requirement). As part of the presentation, you are encouraged to use the notes section for the content slides to reinforce your presentation. Ensure your presentation includes visuals such as images and graphics to supplement your message. You should reference the outside sources mentioned in the required reading, including your textbook and any other sources. Images and graphics, along with supporting references and in-text citations, must follow APA formatting guidelines and should be free of errors. 

Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model we discussed in Units I, II, and III, here you will address the “check” (C) and “act” (A) portion in this assignment.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Compliance Audit

Using the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model we discussed in Units I, II, and III, here you will address the “check” (C) and “act” (A) portion in this assignment. 

Continuing with the scenario presented in the Unit VII Assignment (refer to Unit VII Assignment in the syllabus), you are now assuming the role of an OSHA compliance safety and health officer who has been assigned to perform an audit of the facility where the accident occurred. You have been asked to evaluate the company’s safety management system (SMS) to determine if there were any deficiencies in the system that could have caused the accident. You are required to prepare a summary of your audit process to evaluate the post-accident findings compliant with OSHA standards and also include the following information: 

  • identification of who would be involved in the opening and closing conferences, 
  • specific OSHA standards you would review to determine compliance (you must identify at least three standards and they must relate to the accident), 
  • specific items you would be looking for during your visit to determine compliance, 
  • development of a point of scoring system that you would use to evaluate the SMS, and 
  • recommended feedback you would provide to the company to help them improve their SMS (based on what you have learned in this course). 

You are not required to use previously prepared work as the basis for your audit since your responses must be specific to the actual accident scenario in Unit VII (incident investigation exercise). 

Your audit report should be at least two pages, not including the title and reference pages. You should include at least one outside source (e.g., OSHA standards) besides your textbook and any other pertinent resources as guidance. All supporting references and in-text citations must follow APA formatting guidelines.

Discuss why safety engineering is necessary for business success in a global economy and the relationship between Deming’s plan-do-check-act cycle and Bahr’s five prescribed tasks that are required in system safety engineering.

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1) Discuss why safety engineering is necessary for business success in a global economy and the relationship between Deming’s plan-do-check-act cycle and Bahr’s five prescribed tasks that are required in system safety engineering. Include a scenario to support your explanation.   

Your response should be at least 300 words in length.

2)Discuss how the use of leading safety performance indicators may be designed into a work system in tandem with the hierarchy of controls to engineer hazards out of a work system and reflect a system safety process. Include a scenario to support your explanation.   

Your response should be at least 300 words in length