AO5 Assignment – Managing and Measuring Safety Performance

AO5 Assignment – Managing and Measuring Safety Performance

Part I. Managing Safety Performance

 Introduction:  Organizational leaders utilize prevailing management theories to achieve success.  Many management theories have been developed over history and are still used in one form or another today.  Many times, safety professionals adapt the principles of general management theories in an effort to integrate and implement safety management systems in their organizations.

Assignment:  For each Management Theory listed in the table below, describe a practical application which could be implemented as part of an overall safety management system.

 Part II. Measuring Safety Performance - SMART Goal Development

 Introduction

 SMART Goals are used in many areas of business for developing and communicating a clear and specific statement about what is desired to be accomplished.  Safety SMART goals are an important element of a Safety Management system because they establish specific criteria for performance that is proactive in nature.

 SMART Goals are:

• Specific

• Measurable

• Achievable

• Realistic

• Time-oriented

Assignment:  For a fictitious company of your choosing…

• Identify a set of Corporate Principles, Values, Vision/Mission, and Objectives that drive safety performance

• Develop three reasonable SMART goals based on leading indicators

• Identify specific strategies that will help support accomplishment of the SMART Goals

• Identify specific tactics that individual performers can accomplish in support of the SMART goals.

• Create a table in the format shown on the next page.