Safety Management Systems Training for Emergency Medical Services
▶Summary
The Safety Management Systems training for Emergency Medical Services (SMS4EMS) project will design, develop and deliver a SMS training solution to the EMS sector. The need for the SMS4EMS project...
▶Objectives
The aim of the SMS4EMS project was to enhance safety, hazard and risk management to improve safety performance for EMS professionals, patients, and the public. The project engaged with project partners and associate partners from the EMS sector, academia, education, training and research. Collectively, the cooperation partnership and associate partners co-designed and co-created a Safety Management System that can lead to improvements to safety performance.
▶Activities
The SMS4EMS project implemented research, competence management, training and evaluation activities. In addition, SMS4EMS undertook dissemination activities through Multiplier Events that shared the Project Results with target groups (EMS, health education and training, and research organisations) and relevant stakeholders. SMS4EMS also disseminated Project Results through conference presentations, professional publications and web based activities.
▶Impact
The SMS4EMS project delivered four related Project Results: PR1: Safety Management Systems Capability Analysis and Gaps in Emergency Medical Services PR2: Competency Framework and Learning Objectives for Safety Management Systems in Emergency Medical Services Organisations PR3: Safety Management Systems Training Design and Development for Emergency Medical Services PR4: Safety Management Systems Training for Emergency Medical Services Evaluation Project Result 3 offers an off the shelf training programme that can be used to develop the competence needed to develop a safety management system in an emergency medical services – this includes a classroom based course and e-learning resource. Collectively each of the SMS4EMS Project Results offer a comprehensive suite of methods and tools that can be used to: inform the existing capabilities, gaps and potential for a SMS in EMS; establish the competence framework and learning objectives of a SMS for EMS; design and develop SMS training to be localised within an EMS; and provide an evaluation model to complete the training and development cycle.