“It is a new month. I want you all to work very hard to fail less than previous months. I’ll be measuring. Failures will not be tolerated. Anyone caught doing so will be disciplined by his or her ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has announced it won’t adopt a complex data collection method recommended in 2017 by a special National Academy of Sciences academic panel to calculate ...

Are individuals in your company excited or fearful of safety measurement? Is measurement used to hold people accountable for what they did well, or what they did wrong? When new measurement ...

Understanding the difference between measuring safety performance as opposed to mere safety activity or injury and illness performance was Ryan's major theme. He said there are two key questions that ...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced a 60-day preview period of several changes to the display of carrier data and scoring metrics available to the public via the Compliance, ...

Results, inputs, value, or correlation? What receives the main attention within your approach to safety measurement? Safety measurements are evolving, and it's about time. About 150 years ago, safety, ...

Patient safety in ambulatory care has not been routinely measured. California implemented a pay-for-performance program in safety-net hospitals that incentivized measurement and improvement in key ...

One of the keys to performance improvement is collecting and analyzing data on different measures. To determine quality and patient safety, hospitals track several measurements, including complication ...

CMS will add seven new measures to its hospital inpatient quality reporting program as part of its Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System final rule released Aug. 1. The patient safety measure ...

Oregonians passed a Measure 114 in November. It would ban the manufacture, purchase or sale of high capacity magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition. It would also require ...

Supermarket operators face unique food-safety challenges that are in some ways even more complicated than those faced by traditional restaurants. As retailers increasingly adopt a “grocerant” model ...