never event
A bad event that should never occurA bad event that should never occur.
» Life never happens randomly and life never makes random events happen in your life.
Meaning
3 sensesA bad event that should never occur.
The safety systems engineer examined records of never events across several industries, including health care, air traffic control, and nuclear power.
A bad event that should never occur.
A serious adverse medical event that should never occur and thus is, by strict definitions of preventability, always preventable, being unambiguous, clearly identifiable and measurable, and resulting in death or significant disability.
Wrong-site surgery is a never event because it is always preventable when adequate double checks and crosschecks are enforced.
A serious adverse medical event that should never occur and thus is, by strict definitions of preventability, always preventable, being unambiguous, clearly identifiable and measurable, and resulting in death or significant disability.
A particularly shocking preventable medical error that should never occur.
Examples
1 sentencesLife never happens randomly and life never makes random events happen in your life.
Origin
The strictest sense, referring to a particularly shocking medical error that should neverThe strictest sense, referring to a particularly shocking medical error that should never happen, was the original sense of a never event (circa 2001), although a nuclear power industry publication from the 1980s mentioned a "once-in-a-never event", a collocation playing on such predecessors as once-in-a-blue-moon event and once-in-a-lifetime event.
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Forms
plural: never events| Singular | never event |
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