Improving Patient Safety
A strong safety culture is essential for improving patient safety and is commonly defined as:
“A collection of characteristics and attitudes in an organisation promoted by its leaders and internalised by its members, that make safety an overriding priority” [3]
A more succinct definition is: ‘what the organisation does when nobody is watching’. All organisations have a safety culture; that partially determines how the individuals within that organisation behave because the values of the organisation shape the actions of the individual.