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The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) identifies the following principles for risk management: [5] Create value – resources expended to mitigate risk should be less than the consequence of inaction. Be an integral part of organizational processes. Be part of the decision-making process. Explicitly address uncertainty and ...
ISO 31000 is a set of international standards for risk management.It was developed in November 2009 by International Organization for Standardization. [1] The goal of these standards is to provide a consistent vocabulary and methodology for assessing and managing risk, resolving the historic ambiguities and differences in the ways risk are described.
The seven HACCP principles are included in the international standard ISO 22000. This standard is a complete food safety and quality [10] management system incorporating the elements of prerequisite programmes(GMP & SSOP), [10] HACCP and the quality management system, which together form an organization's Total Quality Management system. [11]
In Northern Europe, infection prevention and control is expanded from healthcare into a component in public health, known as "infection protection" (smittevern, smittskydd, Infektionsschutz in the local languages). It is an essential part of the infrastructure of health care.
In the context of public health, risk assessment is the process of characterizing the nature and likelihood of a harmful effect to individuals or populations from certain human activities. Health risk assessment can be mostly qualitative or can include statistical estimates of probabilities for specific populations.
In this context, risk is the combination of the frequency (likelihood) and the consequence of a specified hazardous event. Several factors are likely to be considered when deciding whether or not a risk has been reduced as far as reasonably practicable: [2] [3] Health and safety guidelines and codes of practice
Serious accidents in high risk, hazardous operations can be prevented through a combination of organizational design, culture, management, and human choice. Theorists of both schools place a lot of emphasis on human interaction with the system as either cause (Normal Accident Theory - NAT) or prevention (HRO) of a systems accident. [ 4 ]
The patient health record is the primary legal record documenting the health care services provided to a person in any aspect of the health care system. The term includes routine clinical or office records, records of care in any health related setting, preventive care, lifestyle evaluation, research protocols and various clinical databases.