How to Improve Safety in Your Workplace

Safe patient handling: How to lift and transfer patients while minimizing risk

A Primer on Laws and Ethics

Free TOOLS for Workplace Safety from IHI

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has developed and adapted a suite of tools to help organizations accelerate their work to improve patient safety and develop a culture of safety. In addition, many organizations have developed tools in the course of their improvement efforts — successful protocols, order sets and forms, instructions and guidelines for implementing key changes — and are making them available on IHI.org for others to use or adapt in their own organizations. We invite you to submit tools you have found useful!

The tools below are grouped according to the key areas where changes must be made to improve patient safety.

Trigger Tools are a particularly useful way to begin identifying adverse events as a measure of overall harm from medical care in a health care organization. Several Trigger Tools are listed below. For more general information on Trigger Tools and how to select the appropriate one, see the Introduction to Trigger Tools page.

For other related Patient Safety tools, please visit:
Medication Systems
Surgical Site Infections

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