Hi, this is Mark Raven. Welcome to episode 307 of lean blog audio. This is a blog post from June 22nd 2020. It's titled Great Piece healthcare workers, protect us. It's time to protect them. So, today, I want to share an excellent article that was co-authored by dr. John Toussaint, of catalysis and Ken, Siegel of value capture, if you want to find a link to that article and more, you can go to lean blog dot org.
Slash 03:07. Their article was published online through the Harvard Business review website. Again, the title is healthcare workers, protect us, it's time to protect them, I'm kind of drawn. We're both deeply influenced by the late Paul O'Neill who made workers safety the primary imperative at Alcoa when he was CEO there. This created a culture of what he called. Habitual Excellence, that led to business success and a soaring stock price.
There's an article that Linked to about this in the blog post. I've also added a video of mr. O'Neill talking about safety, I'm Bill o'roarke, a former Alcoa executive who appears in the video was recently my guest on the habitual Excellence podcast series that's presented by value capture. And again, I've linked to that in the blog post, but back to the hbr, article by Toussaint and seagull, it begins before
the covid-19. Pandemic struck the US healthcare industry, suffered more than And work-related injuries and illnesses per year or 150,000 more than any other industry in the country. Therefore it's no surprise, that healthcare workers have been harmed. It tragic rates during the covid-19 pandemic, according to the US Centers for Disease, Control and prevention or the CDC as of June 4th, 70 2346 us, healthcare workers.
Have been infected a figure. It acknowledges is an undercount, a comprehensive National analysis indicates an almost 600 health care workers have died. They make. Also, they make this very powerful point where they write every instance of a healthcare worker being harmed on the job is preventable. Every single one So on the article again, in hbr talks about how you do that. There are five high level points and the article gives more detail.
Of course, an examples of healthcare organizations that do their best to follow this approach. So they say, one set a goal of zero, workplace injuries and illnesses to make staff safety. A fundamental value that you won't compromise for other organizational. Priorities 3, establish processes to make staff safety. Transparent and to learn from every safety incident for create an organization-wide daily huddle system, to identify and
solve problems. Quickly 5, don't use Frontline, caregiver heroism, as an excuse not to act. So again, you know, there's a great article. I am proud to partner with value capture LED in part by Ken, Siegel in this important and meaningful work. I'm curious, what do you think of the approach laid out by Siegel and Tucson is your organization following that Playbook? I mean, you know, could your
organization do this? And in terms of disclosure, again, I do have relationships with both catalysis and value capture. I'm a faculty member for catalysis and I sometimes work as a Consultant through value capture. So if you want to learn more again, go to lean blog dot, org, slash audio 307. And one of the thing I want to mention in the last episode, I mentioned the audible version of the book, practicing lean that
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