Lessons from Healthcare Safety Management with Dr. Anne Lyren – Ep. 117

In this episode, Mary Conquest speaks with Dr. Anne Lyren, the Chief Medical and Strategy Officer for the Children's Hospitals Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS Network) - a pediatric healthcare safety collective of over 150 hospitals across North America. Anne discusses the challenges of improving worker safety alongside patient care, sharing her organization’s inspiring evolution from safety standardization to systemic learning. She explains why employee safety was harder to improve than patient safety in this complex workplace environment with many competing priorities, and reveals how they were eventually able to make meaningful progress. Understanding worker adaptation and addressing workplace culture were both key changes of approach, and Anne shares many more practical strategies and tactics to help EHS professionals improve workplace safety at their organizations. Find out more about Anne’s work: Solutions For Patient Safety | Children's Hospitals Working Together to Eliminate Harm https://www.solutionsforpatientsafety... Anne recommends exploring the work of: Amy Edmondson | LinkedIn   / amycedmondson   Bob Edwards | LinkedIn   / bob-edwards-48577492   Todd Conklin | LinkedIn   / todd-conklin-64b8a8a   Dr. Anne Lyren on LinkedIn:   / anne-lyren-md-msc-013669261   Safety Labs is created by Safety Products Global, the world's leading manufacturer of safety knives. Through our trusted brands, Klever, Slice and PHC, we empower companies to prevent injuries by providing safer cutting tools for every material and application. Find us at http://www.safetyproducts.global If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected] Chapters: 0:00 Intro 00:42 Introduction to podcast and Anne 02:31 Why is worker safety harder than patient safety? 12:47 Does better patient safety lead to better worker safety? 20:06 Understanding worker adaptation is key 23:16 Addressing workplace culture 30:17 A message from the company behind the podcast 31:38 Is the medical industry keeping pace with workplace safety progression? 35:42 Deprioritization of workers’ safety 41:06 Safety learning is constant 48:57 The most effective safety learning tools 1:02:09 Recommended resources for safety professionals