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Approaches to Safety: One Size Does Not Fit All (14 January 2016)

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This hub page links to an open access chapter of the book Safer Healthcare: Strategies for the Real World which considers that different challenges and different types of work require different safety strategies. It reflects on three broad approaches to the management of risk, which each have their own characteristic approach that can give rise to an authentic way of organising safety and possibilities for improvement.

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The chapter outlines three different approaches to safety, illustrated by the graphic below:

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Approaches to Safety: One Size Does Not Fit All (14 January 2016) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-25559-0_3

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