Risk Management System

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Risk Management System
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Risk management system in a hospital or health care setting is very crucial issue as it is
associated with the patient safety and also with the safety of the employees of that hospital. By
introducing a risk management system in the organization, the organization mainly tries to give a
protection to patients and to the market share, assets, brand value, reputation of the company.
The main area of concern of the risk manager is to enhance the patient safety by reducing various
medical errors (Chartier, 2014). However, in modern days, the importance of safety of the
employees has become very important as a poor employee risk management system can reduce
the employee retention rate (Cloutier et al., 2015). In the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Center, the risk management system for the patients and employees is maintained in a
well manner. The hospital management has appointed a risk manager and the hospital has
different principles for maintaining safe guard of the employees.
In the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, the management of the
hospital has created specific parameters to measure the patient safety and those measures are
mainly the infection prevention among the patients, fall prevention strategies and the
pressure injury prevention among the patients of the hospital. In addition to this, the hospital
management follows a safety manual specifically for the employees of the health care setting.
The manual has a few principles that cover all the employees such as food services
employees, logistic services employees, laboratory technician, nursing staff of the
organization. In case of the safety of the staffs of the hospital, the organization encourages to
use personal protective equipment in different segments of their service (Employee Safety
Manual ,2004). Different parts of their service, the organization has different safety manuals
and those are strongly practiced within the organization. As a part of the risk management

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system, the management has introduced a plan named Strategic Plan 2013-2020
(KFSHRC ,2015).
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center has recruited a risk manager to
manage the risks in the hospital setting related to the patients and the employees of the
organization. The risk manager is responsible for various activities in the organization. The key
responsibilities of the risk management system in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Center are as below-
a) Development of safety policy for the patients and the employees of the
organization
b) Strategic planning for providing safety to the patients and employees
c) Investigations of any adverse incident that may happen to the patients or to
the employees of the organization
d) Ensuring safety environment for both of the patients and the employees
Inspection of the overall safety systems in the organization (KFSHRC, 2019).
The risk management manager tries to leading the organization towards a safer health
care in terms of patient safety and employee safety through securing the safety environment
in the hospital.
The risk management system is different for the patient and employees. In case of
patient safety they are mainly focusing on the improvement of the patients’ experience,
infection prevention of the patients in pre and post-operative condition, the issue of fall
among the patients, improvement in the incidents of pressure injury. As a part of their patient
safety, they take assessment from the patients in terms of disease treatment, quality of care