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Resource: In Safe Hands

This Special Feature Resources Page, contains interviews and resources relating to a one day symposium held at the RSM on Wednesday 8th December 2010.

The symposium was called 'In Safe Hands? Reducing Errors in the Operating Team', and featured talks by a number of academics and clinicians on subjects such as: wrong site surgery, stress and fatigue, situation awareness, the WHO surgical check list and safety in high risk industries. To view content, click on the image of speakers in the left hand column.

After viewing a speaker interview, you can select to watch the lecture or access related resources.

Professor Rhona Flin

The Stuart Lecture, Ensuring Safe Hands in High Risk Industries

Professor George Youngson

Wrong Site Surgery, Surgical Error or System Failure?

Professor Charles Vincent

Survey of Problems and Progress

Mr Simon Paterson-Brown

Human Factors in the Operating Theatre

Mr Simon Paterson-Brown

The Surgical Check List

 

The Stuart Lecture, Ensuring Safe Hands in High Risk Industries

Related Resources

• Industrial Psychology Research Centre Website
• Resource List (46kb)

Professor Rhona Flin

Professor of Applied Psychology, University of Aberdeen.

Professor Flin discusses The Stuart Lecture which she is giving from the perspective of an industrial psychologist as she compares safety management and behaviour patterns of people in the oil, nuclear and aviation industries to those in the medical industry.

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