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Tools to Measure Safety Culture and Climate in a Healthcare Environment
Many tools have been pioneered and used in other high-risk industries such as aviation, nuclear energy, transportation industries. Rigorously tested patient safety tools used in healthcare include:
Patient and worker safety and safety culture often go hand-in-hand and share organizational safety culture as their foundation. Go to for a complete list along with comparison of tools and measures.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) provides several documents/questionnaires on their website. They include: