Safety Culture
PCSAO is leading Safety Culture efforts in Ohio, with support from the University of Kentucky, Center for Innovation in Population Health and Franklin County Children Services, as an early adopter and implementer of Safety Culture. Safety Culture is integral to our shared practice model, PACT. Safety Culture is the use of safety science in child welfare to measure and test change within the following domains:
- Emotional Exhaustion: the measure of a team’s emotional reserves
- Mindful Organizing: measure of teamwork and team resilience. It’s about how teams monitor, plan, innovate, learn, and support one another
- Psychological Safety: measures whether team members feel accepted, respected, part of a team and free to speak up and take interpersonal risks
- Stress Recognition: measures how well individuals identify stress and acknowledge its impact on decision-making
- Safety Climate: measures the relationship team members have with their supervisor
- Perceived Personal Safety: measures how safe team members feel they are while working in the field
- Workplace Safety: measures how safe team members feel in their office environment
- Workplace Connectedness: measures the experience of belonging and relatedness among team members
