In preparation for the written assignment, examine James Reasons’ Swiss Cheese Theory and its application to quality and risk management, including patient safety, in a health care setting. What organizational influences would predispose an organization to the Swiss Cheese Theory? What strategies, or system approaches, would benefit an organization in preventing active and latent failures?

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Man is to error. The aforementioned statement clearly depicts that all programs developed by man is the least sense cannot function at a 100% effective capacity. James Reason recognized this aspect and developed the Swiss cheese theory as a means of curbing the situation whereby the various programs fall short. The Swiss theory is very practical in the sense it applies the use of live contexts. James took the various cheese bars to act as the defense mechanisms of any program in an organization (Core concepts in patient safety). Cheese bars normally have holes in them and he thus stated that the holes acted as the weaknesses of the program which predispose …

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