The investigator’s toolkit: FRAM (9 October 2024)

Summary

In this blog, David Fassam, Senior Safety Investigator at the Health Services Safety Investigation Body (HSSIB), looks at one of the methods used in patient safety investigations: the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM).

FRAM is an analysis method that looks at tasks, known as functions, and their connectivity and dependence on each other which are called aspects. The aspects within FRAM that are used to connect the functions and demonstrate the dependencies are inputs, outputs, preconditions, controls, time and resources.