Safety in hospitals is one of the most important issues that should be considered in healthcare. It is the cornerstone of healthcare and quality of medical services, since the hospital should be a place of free of hazards and controlled risks. Therefore, the safety management department in hospitals must be designed to prevent failures, eliminate mistakes and reduce dangers thus contributing to the well-being of patients, personnel and visitors .
Rafidia hospital is one of the major hospitals in the north side of the West Bank. It has different specialties thus it is an important referral center for the northern area. It is also one of the oldest hospitals that underwent a lot of renovations over the past few years. Initial visits to the hospitals have shown the lack of a fire safety safety system in Rafidya Hospital, thus to its importance, it will be the target hospital in our research.
Rafidia Hospital do not have the basic principle that requires if a fire happened in the hospital. There are no emergency exits, emergency stairs, signs, fire extinguishers, fire doors and fire alarm. Also, the staff in the Rafidia Hospital don not knows how to act in a fire situation.
The methodology that will be followed to solve this problem will be based on developing the basic principle require to ensure protection of the patient and workers such as, fire alarm, emergency exits and fire doors. Besides that, an evacuation plan will be designed for the Hospital to ensure quick evacuate to all people in the hospital. Finley, the cost will be calculated for the proposed system.
The importance of this project is based on the potential of Rafedia hospital. Because of the presence of special medical cases that cannot be treated in other hospitals. Also, most of surgical emergence cases are transferred to Rafedia hospital. According to that, it should be always ready to receive the largest allowed number of patients and give them the best treatment services they can. Because of that, Rafedia hospital have been chosen to be the aim of this project to assist the safety system in, because it increases the level of services in any service sector.
It is evident that whenever the human civilization progresses, the probability of exposure to new risks that were not known in the past increases, therefore it is necessary to think about appropriate methods for protecting by management methods removes risk or reduce their effects if they occur and by integrating efforts of workers in all specializations to create a system limiting of the risks that may cause bodily harm or financially or incorporeal. Accidents and ill-health will force the company to lose more time, more skills including insurance premium hikes, legal proceedings, etc. The features of effective health and safety management are very essential. There is a clear guide that effective health and safety system management affect directly to all of the company success. This is true across all industry sectors and among businesses of all shapes and sizes. Apart from the legal and financial duties you have as an employee, consider the possible results of a serious workplace accident in business. Think about managing without a help, while he/she is recuperating following an accident. Think about the damage to brand and business reputation. Think about increased insurance premiums or compensation claims. A positive and
proactive approach to health and safety management can reduce the possibility for financial damage to business.
The work field security should be contained a training programs which are designed to give employees a lessons how to do with risks, employees must be trained to reduce danger and fight
risky situations , it’s crucial for the company management to comply to the safety needs of its workers through danger covers as well as training programs aim to minimize risks costs and to increase employee productivity whereas assure the protection of the patients .Safety programs decreases the workplace injuries. Employers use safety programs to evaluate hazards and implement measures such as barriers, safety procedures and protective clothing. Implementing sound health and safety measures can have wide-ranging benefits for your business, leading to increase profit and employee morale. In this particular section we discuss some of these benefits. The advantages covered are as follows:
· Protection of workers
· reduce costs
· reduce recruitment costs
· reduce insurance costs
· Protection of reputation
· Improvement in productivity
Good health and safety not only provide a work place free of danger, but also reduce the number of workers made wants through injury and illness. This reduce the need for other workers to cover the work of wants colleagues, which is a major extra pressure and contributor to stress.