Launching in late January 2025, the first in a series of new Universal Safety and Reliability Skills training modules will be available for clinical employees across Vanderbilt Health. These new training modules will help make the health system a High Reliability Organization.
Modeled after other industries such as aviation, nuclear power, and the military, High Reliability Organizations demonstrate a commitment to safety that results in remarkably few accidents or major errors despite the complex, high-risk and high-pressure environments in which they operate. This commitment to safety is strengthened by strong cultural characteristics and repeatable and documented systems and processes.
The Making Safety Personal: Universal Safety and Reliability Skills training focuses on three main components, each tied to its own training module:
- We speak up for safety
- We are personally committed to safety
- We are accountable and communicate clearly and completely
All clinical employees are expected to complete the three training modules by the end of 2025.
Last year, clinical leaders attended in-person boot camps that helped reinforce their role in fostering a robust culture of safety at Vanderbilt Health. During these boot camps, attendees gained new tools, learned skills, and reinforced important tactics, all intended to help Make Safety Personal at Vanderbilt Health.
Vanderbilt Health’s multi-year journey to becoming a High Reliability Organization, known as Making Safety Personal, launched in March 2021, and is now in Phase 3, which focuses on implementation and habit-forming.
The first of the Making Safety Personal: Universal Safety and Reliability Skills modules, known as “Speaking Up for Safety,” will be available in the Learning Exchange beginning Jan. 22, 2025. Information on the Making Safety Personal effort is available at vumc.org/makingsafetypersonal
