Develop Your Assessing Risk Competency
Patients and their loved ones rely on safe, healthy and clean facilities, and it is up to facility managers and staff to ensure that the people in their facilities are not exposed to unnecessary harm. This is done by evaluating the severity, likelihood and probability of risk and implementing appropriate measures to mitigate that risk.
The assessing risk competency includes skills such as:
- Developing and implementing management plans, policies and procedures for risk categories
- Utilizing ICRA 2.0 and interim as well as alternate life safety measure programs
- Operation of the following programs: fire safety management, all hazards emergency management, utility management (including utility incident response, water management and ventilation management programs), worker safety, security management (including violence in the workplace, active shooter, cybersecurity and appropriate access) and a hazardous materials program
Training and Resources
Assessing Risk Education
ASHE ICRA 2.0™ Training Program
Live education
Provides health care facilities with the tools to train and onboard new staff to complete the ASHE ICRA 2.0 process and personalize the infection prevention strategy for your individual site.
ASHE ICRA 2.0™: Improving Patient Protections
e-Learning
Explore each step of the ICRA process in this course. Understand common mistakes teams make and learn how to foster a comprehensive team approach."
Managing Infection Prevention in Health Care Facilities
Live education
Proactively prevent infection in health care facilities during maintenance, renovation, and construction. Engage with lectures, case study reviews, problem-solving exercises and group discussions.
Fire Door Inspections
e-Learning
Learn to follow the proper way of door inspection. View step-by-step door inspection performed by a technician. Consider the frequency and various components.
Water Management Program Development Workshop
Live education
Avoid the spread of infections and communicable diseases at your facility. Get on track to develop an active utility management plan and water treatment plans with institutional buy-in.
A Safe Health Care Environment
On-Demand webinar
This recording focuses on the process of risk assessment and mitigation of behavioral health patient safety physical risks.
Assessing Risk Publications and Tools
ASHE ICRA 2.0™ Process Guide
Monograph
Your how-to manual for successfully engaging the ASHE ICRA 2.0 Tool. Understand where it fits within the larger project plan and who you should include on the ICRA team.
ASHE Patient Safety and Ligature Identification Checklist
Resource
ASHE members can use this tool to create ligature-resistant environments when 1:1 continuous observation is not practical.
Converting Medical/Surgical Units for Safe Use by Psychiatric Patients
Monograph
Mental disorders are not uncommon in the United States, and to treat these disorders, many medical centers consider opening a unit to treat mentally ill patients. Explore how to do this successfully.
ASHE Wet Location Tool
Tool
This tool provides a framework for a risk analysis to determine if an operating room should be considered a wet procedure location.
Roadmap to Resiliency
Monograph
This monograph summarizes lessons learned from previous disasters, explains how to assess vulnerabilities, and suggests new ways to safeguard emergency power through new technologies, innovative protocols and information sharing.
Best Practices Framework for Health Care Cyber Protection of MEP Systems
Monograph
Learn best practices to mitigate cyber-risk for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems, which is most effective when implemented at the start of a project.