ERM occasionally sponsors free seminars in Southeast Michigan. In this particular short presentation I explore how injuries are really just process failures.
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Safety As A Process Output
The world’s leading sustainability consultancy
November 2015
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Business Processes Are More Than Behaviors
Inputs Transformations Outputs
Manpower
Materials
Methods
Machines
environMent
Intended
Or
Unintended
(Waste)
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Traditional View Of Safety
Support
HR
Environmental
Safety
Purchasing
Maintenance
Materials
Legal
IT
Accounting
Operations
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The Modern View of Safety
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Safety is the output of well-run business systems.
SAFETY
Competency
Process
Capability
Hazard &
Risk
Management
Accountability
Systems
Engagement
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Discussion Questions
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How does shifting the organization’s view of safety from a
cost center to an enabler of productivity change the way
we’re viewed?
What leading, lagging, and predictive indicators would you
use to demonstrate the connection between safety and these
antecedent processes?
What are the biggest barriers you see to helping operations
to improve in these areas?
Notas del editor
Say:
The basics elements that make up process (whether you’re a barista at Starbucks or manufacturing nanoparticles) are Inputs, Transformations, and Outputs. In other words we start out with stuff, we do things to that stuff, and we end up with other stuff. In a perfect world we would only end up with stuff that people will buy, but unfortunately, even the best process produce stuff that nobody values, and we call that stuff “waste”. When we think of a process we generally talk about the 5Ms (Manpower, Materials, Machines, Methods, and the environMent---hey, I didn’t say they BEGAN with em.---and each em is transformed in some way. Sometimes the process transforms the element in a way that is beneficial and at other times the materials damaged in some way. Workers are almost always transformed in a way that is wasteful; except for gaining experience, very little transforms the worker in a way that makes him or her more valuable. Sometimes the transformation is so profound that the worker is injured, perhaps severely or even fatally.
This model represents the traditional role of the safety function. It’s seen as external from operations; as a cost, an inconvenience, or even an impediment to operations.
If we view safety as a by-product of well-managed and robust business systems, which systems have the most profound effect on the overall success of the company, and what should the safety function be doing to enable these business processes:
Competency- Identifying, recruiting, retaining, training, and developing the right people for the job; people who don’t know how do the job right can’t do it safely.
Process Capability-Improving your processes so that they return consistent results is paramount to doing the jobs safely.
Hazard & Risk Management. Eliminate injuries by eliminating the things that cause them.
Accountability Systems. Everyone plays a role in workplace safety so everyone must be held accountable for doing so.
Engagement. Workers hold the key to understanding root causes of injuries. An effective Safety Management effort must engage and tap into this untapped storehouse of knowledge.