Health care leaders increasingly recognize that patient safety is not possible without a workforce that is physically and psychologically safe joyful and thriving this article describes three actionable recommendations to improve workforce safety. This expanded edition covers contemporary material on innovative patient safety topics such as applying lean principles to reduce mistakes opportunity analysis deductive adverse event investigation improving safety through collaboration with patients and families using technology for patient safety improvements medication safety and high reliability organizations the editor. This expanded edition covers contemporary material on innovative patient safety topics such as applying lean principles to reduce mistakes opportunity analysis deductive adverse event investigation improving safety through collaboration with patients and families using technology for patient safety improvements medication safety and high reliability organizations. Ch 7 proactively error proofing health care processes richard j croteau and paul m schyve ch 8 reducing errors through work system improvements patrice l spath ch 9 structured teamwork system of reduce clinical errors daniel t risser robert simon and matthew m rice et al. Showing items related by title author creator and subject medical error patient safety and quality health care the role of the royal college