Abstract
As a part of the medical safety management system, the efforts to establish the incident report system and the hospital organization control system have been made in every medical institution.However such efforts are not enough. However, safety control mechanism will never work properly if the efforts would be made only by limited number of people. This work requires a system in which all the staff members should be involved. Regardless of line of work, each one of the hospital staffs should be aware that it is his or her duty to secure the quality and safety of medical treatment. For that purpose, it is important to have safety culture fostered across the organization. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare defines the medical treatment safety culture as “A way of thinking or an attitude that all the staffs engaged in the medical services give the highest priority to patient's safety, and strive for its realization and also the way organizations toward the goal.” It is not easy to foster the safety culture, however, while making laborious efforts toward it, we have found the following five points to be effective.(1) Declaration to launch organization wide efforts to seriously tackle the “medical treatment safety” issue.(2) Activities of the project teams that attempt to solve the problems existing in multiple lines of work (3) Issuance of a self-adhesive labels to those having attended the training lectures concerning the medical treatment safety.(4) Provision of concrete feedbacks that seem to have contributed to improvement.(5) Study meeting over the idea of Quality Control (QC) based-problem solving method. Fostering the safety culture is not something to be achieved at one time in the future, but rather it should be the whole continuing process that needs to be tackled with concrete measures and all out organizational efforts.
