Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Management Tools for Safety (Part II)

In the NRG network, Mr. Mohsen highlighted one point on OSH Management... for me, it's interesting & maybe it's quite new for SHO.... "Quality Safety"...

Let me define & discuss it from my personal view... for me, it's not new... but it's more on the integrated approach frm management point of view... especially in business strategy... we trying our best to deliver some tasks... & from quality point of view, we do it based on "the standard/defined specification" to achieve "desirable/targeted result"... a good/achieved results will satisfy us (as personal achievement, of course) and also the management....

so, what I can say here is, if you can make "Safety" in a good "quality" approach, the end results must be good... using Safety's terminology or common Safety's target, it means no accidents, injuries etc depends on your target setting if we follow the specification!... in an ideal situation, of course :))

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Management Tools for Safety

I bought a book from MPH yesterday, title "Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance & Beyond" by James E Roughton & Nathan Crutchfield... when I ask my wife whether I can buy the book or not, the 1st question is "How much??"... hehehe, of course quite expensive then since it's an imported book... but, for me it's an investment...

The interesting part about the book is the application of other management tools used to manage OSH... this is interesting... when I studied MBA, I can foresee the possibility to use some management tools to manage OSH.... this is unique approach, and I believe if OSH can be managed using some of the management tools, it can become an eye opener to the top management... management like to see something that is tangible... as an example , KPI from financial point of view....

There are a list of management tools outside there... some of the common tools are SWOT analysis, fish bones diagram (Ishikawa fish bone analysis), Quality Mgmt Syst ISO9001, 6 sigma, Strategic Management tools etc... for more management tools info, you can go the website below... cool one, I learnt it from MBA :))
http://www.valuebasedmanagement.net/

I will try to digest & discuss the application of this management tools in managing OSH in another post....