[An organizational model for safety management in health services]

The authors are reporting a practical experience about safety management of health workers through the adoption of a management model inspired to the indications of International Standard for Quality Management. In the discussion they describe the integration path between the Prevention and protection Service and the Quality Office of the University Hospital of Bologna in order to promote the accomplishment of a progressive spirit of collaboration through the implementation of a shared and common management system which helped in the adoption of appropriate Improvement solutions in order to protect the safety of the health workers.