About 44% of the roughly 26,000 enrolled have completed “We Speak Up for Safety,” the first of the “Making Safety Personal: Universal Safety & Reliability Skills” modules. All are asked to complete this module no later than March 3 to start applying these lessons to daily work.
This is the first in a series of three new Universal Safety & Reliability Skills training modules that will be available for clinical and some non-clinical employees across Vanderbilt Health in the coming months. These new training modules will help with our journey to becoming a High Reliability Organization by using skills, such as “Qualify, Validate and Verify,” to prevent human error.
The “Making Safety Personal: Universal Safety & 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 to communicate clearly and completely
Clinical and some non-clinical leaders attended in-person boot camps that helped reinforce their role in fostering a robust culture of safety at Vanderbilt Health. Leaders are implementing safety skills like starting every meeting with a safety message and high-reliability rounding with staff.
Comments from those trainings include: “Fantastic tools to apply to common issues and organizational barriers; this training was so worth my time and great tools that I will be able to take back to my department right away.”
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.
More information on the “Making Safety Personal” effort is available at vumc.org/makingsafetypersonal
