The Patient Safety Officer develops and maintains systems within the organization to proactively predict, detect, monitor, prevent, organize, measure, investigate, report, and manage patient adverse events or other incidents that may lead to patient harm. Because the incumbent works within a healthcare setting, there may be occupational risk for exposure to hazardous medications or hazardous waste within the environment through receipt, transport, storage, preparation, dispensing, administration, cleaning and/or disposal of contaminated waste.