Resources

The Victorian Safety Culture Guide (VSCG), from Safer Care Victoria, supports healthcare leaders to measure and monitor their organisation’s safety culture;  and is also a useful tool for other sectors to adapt and apply to develop their safety cultures. 

Fostering positive safety cultures enhances workforce satisfaction, influencing care delivery and patient outcomes. Senior health care leaders play a pivotal role in implementing and sustaining positive safety cultures that support proactive creation of safe care, detecting risks and reporting issues.

The Victorian Safety Culture Guide:

• Facilitates proactive measurement and monitoring to prevent harm and promote safer health care
• Offers actionable strategies, practical approaches, and best practices for improving safety culture 
• Allows leaders to make data-driven decisions to support the implementation of targeted changes to improve safety culture
• Uses a variety of existing methods and approaches widely available.