Fig 1.
Cartoon of how LabCIRS helps to prevent further mishaps and fosters an error culture.
“Error”: a researcher mistook two faintly labeled reagents A and B, which ruined his experiment. “Reporting”: entry of the incident into LabCIRS. “Assessment”: a group of experts (scientists and technicians) reviews the error and takes preventive action by color labelling the reagents. “Feedback”: the errors as well as the measure to prevent it in the future are communicated to the entire laboratory.
Fig 2.
Errors reported per quarter since system was initiated (I/2014) until June 2016.
Grey: number of errors reported publicly; orange: number of errors reported confidentially, i.e., without allowing the report to be made public.
Fig 3.
Results of an anonymous survey to explore which professions and status groups use LabCIRS in an active or passive manner.